System cpu metricset

Stack

The System cpu metricset provides CPU statistics.

This metricset is available on:

• FreeBSD
• Linux
• macOS
• OpenBSD
• Windows

cpu.metrics

This option controls what CPU metrics are reported. The value is a list and three metric types are supported - percentages, normalized_percentages, and ticks. The default value is cpu.metrics: [percentages].

use_performance_counters

This option enables the use of performance counters to collect data for the CPU/core metricset. It is only effective on Windows. You should use this option if running beats on machins with more than 64 cores. The default value is use_performance_counters: true

 metricbeat.modules: - module: system metricsets: [cpu] cpu.metrics: [percentages, normalized_percentages, ticks] #use_performance_counters: false 

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

 { "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z", "event": { "dataset": "system.cpu", "duration": 115000, "module": "system" }, "host": { "cpu": { "usage": 0.0467 } }, "metricset": { "name": "cpu", "period": 10000 }, "service": { "type": "system" }, "system": { "cpu": { "cores": 24, "idle": { "norm": { "pct": 0.9532 }, "pct": 22.8778, "ticks": 5843152812 }, "iowait": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0001 }, "pct": 0.002, "ticks": 335866 }, "irq": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0017 }, "pct": 0.0401, "ticks": 7025540 }, "nice": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0003 }, "pct": 0.006, "ticks": 1812301 }, "softirq": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0008 }, "pct": 0.02, "ticks": 3581641 }, "steal": { "norm": { "pct": 0 }, "pct": 0, "ticks": 0 }, "system": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0169 }, "pct": 0.4068, "ticks": 67901836 }, "total": { "norm": { "pct": 0.0467 }, "pct": 1.1202 }, "user": { "norm": { "pct": 0.027 }, "pct": 0.6472, "ticks": 126846063 } } } }