How to Monitor CPU Usage

The CPU Usage plugin allows you to monitor CPU Usage of your server. This plugin is included and enabled by default, no setup is required.

CPU Metrics

The following metrics are available from the CPU monitoring plugin. Source code is available on GitHub.

• user

  Time the CPU spend running user space processes. A user space program is a program that does not belong to the kernel. Programs such as webservers, databaseservers etc.

• idle

  Time the CPU spend being idle (doing nothing).

• system

  Time the CPU spend running kernel tasks.

• steal

  Time the CPU spend running kernel tasks.

• system

  Time the CPU spend running kernel tasks.

• steal

  Time the virtual CPU had to wait for the hypervisor to service another virtual CPU. This is only available on virtual machines.