elasticsearch - Metricbeat retrieving total CPU overall utilization (and not 'usage' or 'load')

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CPU utilization is not the same as CPU load is not the same as CPU usage.

taken definitions of CPU usage and load from here and the corresponding metricbeat fields from here :

CPU usage:

CPU usage is a measurement, in a percentage, of how much time the CPU spends actively computing something.

available on system.cpu.system.pct

this picture shows how much time my host's CPU cores were busy computing something.

CPU load:

CPU load measures how many programs are using or waiting for a processor core at one time.

load metric is not available on windows hosts.

CPU utilization

CPU utilization refers to a computer's usage of processing resources. mean overall resource usage of any core.

for example, currently, my windows host utilizes 24% of his CPU resource.

I would like to monitor my host CPU utilization and not CPU usage using metricbeat. is it possible?

Metricbeat measures CPU use as per https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html#_cpu_2;

CPU statistics (idle, irq, user, system, iowait, softirq, cores, nice, steal, total)....

utilisation would be a dynamic and relative calculation, it's not something Metricbeat is setup to do. you could always file a feature request to have it considered though - https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new/choose

find out what 100% usage is for your system and then go from there. I am not sure what the best way to do that is though sorry, because 100% is relative – warkolm Sep 14, 2021 at 22:36

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