# CPU usage increases over time meticbeat on Windows 10

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 29, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686 "2017-10-29T23:14:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mdanner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@mdanner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mdanner)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686/1 "2017-10-29T23:14:55Z")

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Any idea why CPU usage is steadily increasing over time? This graph shows a four hour period.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/6/46cb9773b8e2090a24cad67e4ba332b54b9f06c8.png)

Here's how the metricbeat is configured:

```
metricbeat.modules:

#------------------------------- System Module -------------------------------
- module: system
  metricsets:
    # CPU stats
    - cpu

    # System Load stats
    #- load

    # Per CPU core stats
    #- core

    # IO stats
    #- diskio

    # Per filesystem stats
    - filesystem

    # File system summary stats
    - fsstat

    # Memory stats
    - memory

    # Network stats
    - network

    # Per process stats
    - process

  enabled: true
  period: 60s
  processes: ['.*']
```

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686/2 "2017-10-30T09:30:38Z")

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Hi @mdanner,

Thank you for reporting this, in order to find the issue we will need some more info:

What version of Metricbeat are you using?

Could you share the log output? I want to check if some errors are happening

Best regards

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**Author:** ![mdanner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@mdanner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mdanner)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686/3 "2017-11-07T03:35:41Z")

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Hi @exekias,

I'm running Metricbeat 5.5.2. Sorry, the log has already rolled off. Oh well, it appears to have been a transient problem, as it hasn't cropped up again in over a week. But thanks for responding!

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686/4 "2017-11-08T12:03:48Z")

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Good to know!

let us know if it happens again, and try to gather as much info as possible, logs will help there!

Best regards

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-increases-over-time-meticbeat-on-windows-10/105686/5 "2017-12-06T12:03:50Z")

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