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CPU

Monitor per-core and aggregated CPU usage ratios including user, system, idle, I/O wait, and virtualization overhead. The agent collects per-core and aggregated CPU usage ratios to help monitor system performance.

Metrics

Metric Description
cpu_user_ratio Time spent in user mode
cpu_system_ratio Time spent in system/kernel mode
cpu_idle_ratio Idle time
cpu_nice_ratio Time spent on low-priority processes
cpu_iowait_ratio Time waiting for I/O operations
cpu_irq_ratio Time servicing hardware interrupts
cpu_softirq_ratio Time servicing software interrupts
cpu_steal_ratio Time stolen by hypervisor
cpu_guest_ratio Time running a guest OS
cpu_guestNice_ratio Time running a low-priority guest OS

Tags

  • cpu:
    • total → all cores aggregated
    • cpu{n} → individual core (e.g., cpu0, cpu1, …)