# How to understand the monitor metric “cpu Throttling”

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157 "2020-01-08T06:12:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ITzhangqiang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2bfe46/32.png) [@ITzhangqiang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ITzhangqiang)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157/1 "2020-01-08T06:12:48Z")

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Hi,all:  
I have not set cpu limit for es node，why kibana report cpu Throttling in some es node？  
And I don't understand this metric means.Can anybody help me？

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157/2 "2020-01-08T18:48:04Z")

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Hi @ITzhangqiang,

Are you running the elastic stack inside of containers? And can you share your `kibana.yml` settings?

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**Author:** ![ITzhangqiang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2bfe46/32.png) [@ITzhangqiang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ITzhangqiang)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157/3 "2020-01-09T02:14:26Z")

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Thankyou for your reply,  
yes，I run the elastic stack in containers.I have found the cause of the problem,  
I disable CFS quota on k8s,and it works.

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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:** [February 6, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-the-monitor-metric-cpu-throttling/214157/4 "2020-02-06T02:14:27Z")

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