# How to create a visualization for node cpu usage of kubernetes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356 "2021-09-28T12:40:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Kaushik\_R](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaushik_R)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/1 "2021-09-28T12:40:09Z")
Hi All,
I'm trying to create a visualization to capture the node cpu usage of a kubernetes node.
i'm trying to use kubernetes.node.cpu.usage.nanocores , kubernetes.node.cpu.usage.nanocores but none is working the outcome is 0
The aggregation that I tried using is average ,max and even unique count .
We are not using metricbeat module here but filebeat is configured.
Can anyone please help me how to achieve this ?
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### Author:  [@devon.thomson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devon.thomson)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/2 "2021-09-28T14:12:52Z")
I'm not sure, but it seems to me like there isn't any relevant data in your current view. The first step I would take is to [set the time range](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/set-time-filter.html) to a range where you're sure there will be data.
If nothing shows up, I would look next in [Discover](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/discover.html) to see if you can find any records at all, and if so, check if the field `kubernetes.node.cpu.usage.nanocores` exists in the records that are there. You can add a filter for that by selecting the field, and the operator `exists`.
If the data isn't there at all, it must be an ingestion problem, and I will forward you to the appropriate team!
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### Author:  [@Kaushik\_R](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaushik_R)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/3 "2021-09-28T15:13:13Z")
Hi Devon,
Thanks for the reply .
I do see the data show up but as soon as I add another metric related to nodeGroup or node.label in order to group based on the nodes the data vanishes.
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### Author:  [@devon.thomson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devon.thomson)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/4 "2021-09-28T15:29:38Z")
You should check again in Discover and make sure there are records where `nodeGroup` or `node.label` exists, as well as `kubernetes.node.cpu.usage.nanocores` existing.
Are you using Visualize or Lens to create your visualization?
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### Author:  [@ghudgins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ghudgins)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/5 "2021-09-29T20:40:56Z")
> [@Kaushik\_R](#):
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> We are not using metricbeat module here but filebeat is configured.
I don't think that field is included in filebeat so if you aren't feeding metric data that could be it.
...but this field is in metricbeat. I would double check your data in Discover like @devon.thomson was mentioning using an "exists" filter for the nanocores field and expand a single document from that dataset to get a sense for what's there. I don't see this `nodeGroup` or `node.label` as part of the `event.dataset` for "kubernetes.node" data on my example environment...here's what I see:
...but i'm able to build a visualization with the fields that are there:
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### Author:  [@Kaushik\_R](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaushik_R)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/6 "2021-09-30T08:59:49Z")
Hi @devon.thomson and @ghudgins ,
Thanks for your support.
You both were right the metric is part of the metricbeat module my bad and in my case i was not able to see the data show up in the discover section.
Index : mon-metrics-k8s-\*
Metric : kubernetes.node.cpu.usage.nanocores
Another Metric : kubernetes.node.labels.occloud\_oracle\_com/nodeGroup ( using this to group the value from spilt series option )
So this is the reason it's not coming up in visualization as well.
will you guys let me know what is the reason for data not coming up and Do i need to use some other index ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-for-node-cpu-usage-of-kubernetes/285356/7 "2021-10-28T09:00:18Z")
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