# Cpu utilization visualization using metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [July 12, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721 "2018-07-12T10:02:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kolli\_dilip](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kolli_dilip/32/33821_2.png) [@kolli\_dilip](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kolli_dilip)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/1 "2018-07-12T10:02:16Z")

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I have my CPU metrics coming up and have been visualizing them using the Visual blinder in time series, every thing seems fine but when today suddenly the CPU from one of the BOX went to 100% , i was unable to see the same on the graph, as it's showing a peak of 4 and it's not showing beyond

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/5/d59505d98240e591d356de16b9da8bc172a247fe.png).  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/a/9a4328b8ba1838967f7aecf78156234983d17682.png)

the panel options are as below

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/6/769f356dd99db975cac38837b6a26554fd5187f1.png)

please help on this to capture 100 cpu utilization

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/2 "2018-07-12T14:51:16Z")

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The reason it is 4 is because you probably have 4 cores on your machine so it's 400%.

If you want to make sure that it's capped at 100% you must used the normalised percentages: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-cpu.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-cpu.html)

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**Author:** ![rcowart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rcowart/32/88091_2.png) [@rcowart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcowart)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/3 "2018-07-12T15:59:10Z")

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In addition to what @ruflin said, the Data Formatter should be `percentage`, not `duration`.

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**Author:** ![kolli\_dilip](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kolli_dilip/32/33821_2.png) [@kolli\_dilip](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kolli_dilip)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/4 "2018-07-13T07:58:13Z")

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thank you Champ @ruflin

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**Author:** ![kolli\_dilip](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kolli_dilip/32/33821_2.png) [@kolli\_dilip](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kolli_dilip)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/5 "2018-07-13T07:58:30Z")

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thank you Champ @rcowart

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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:** [August 10, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-utilization-visualization-using-metricbeat/139721/6 "2018-08-10T08:12:24Z")

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