# High CPU (cgroup) usage/utilization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-cgroup-usage-utilization/258964>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-cgroup-usage-utilization/258964 "2020-12-17T08:47:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![NejcK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nejck/32/81024_2.png) [@NejcK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NejcK)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-cgroup-usage-utilization/258964/2 "2020-12-28T08:47:13Z")

</div>

Ok, so we have about 5 "clients" (filebeat and metricbeat) that are sending data to Elastic cloud. I've turned off all of those clients so no new data was coming to the cloud for the last 4 days. And for whatever reason, I've lost all data but for the last 2 days, even though there was no activity on the node for the last 4 days (wasn't restarted etc...):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/0/b04e9df6d83cbe36ef50ccebabb13ccd7de2d121.png)

Not only that, something is still causing 50% CPU usage for whatever reason:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/e/fee0439811ae62f055e21c5185a0562b8a3e65ff.png)

... even though really not much is happening on the instance:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/2/f2b2f33341e46d950f4ae53682d7ec2ef4f7a641.png)

... and the instance config hasn't changed for the last 13 days:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/6204bd0f2320451b5acce30b4db2aa7b629772a0.png)

Any kind of help or insight would be much appreciated.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-cgroup-usage-utilization/258964)._