# How to interpret CPU and memory stats?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 9, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976 "2023-05-09T16:19:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ankita\_Pachauri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ankita_pachauri/32/61469_2.png) [@Ankita\_Pachauri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankita_Pachauri)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976/1 "2023-05-09T16:19:54Z")

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Hi!

Filebeat logs metric stats in its log file, I am wondering what CPU and memstat mean. Do these show CPU and memory utilization of the beat on the server? Adding a sample for reference.

```auto
2023-05-05T10:26:56.954Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monito
ring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":0,"time":{"ms":1}},"total":{"ticks":0,"time":{"ms":1},"value":0},"u
ser":{"ticks":0}},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"4b4a8c30-96a9-49c3-b9be-1753ae17b8da","uptime":{"ms":10081114}},"memstats":{"g
c_next":5970176,"memory_alloc":3293408,"memory_total":62824296},"runtime":{"goroutines":24}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"o
pen_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"pipeline":{"clients":1,"events":{"active":0}}},
"registrar":{"states":{"current":5}},"system":{"load":{"1":2.1943,"15":2.2223,"5":2.2133,"norm":{"1":0.2743,"15":0.2778,
"5":0.2767}}}}}}

```

Kindly Assist.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976/2 "2023-05-11T00:48:30Z")

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Yes that is correct, it's a self monitoring log entry.

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**Author:** ![Ankita\_Pachauri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ankita_pachauri/32/61469_2.png) [@Ankita\_Pachauri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankita_Pachauri)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976/3 "2023-05-11T15:29:38Z")

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Thanks Mark for clarifying this, however I also want to understand how I can interpret this, exactly what does cpu and memstats metrics mean here.

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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:** [June 8, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-cpu-and-memory-stats/332976/4 "2023-06-08T15:30:06Z")

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