# How to use the original indicator of Monitoring in the log file of filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-the-original-indicator-of-monitoring-in-the-log-file-of-filebeat/193434>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-the-original-indicator-of-monitoring-in-the-log-file-of-filebeat/193434 "2019-08-02T02:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ADiiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ADiiana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ADiiana)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-the-original-indicator-of-monitoring-in-the-log-file-of-filebeat/193434/1 "2019-08-02T02:08:41Z")

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Just like these data，I want to use cpu time (system, total, user) to calculate the CPU utilization, so I must know the meaning of the three options, thank you very much.

```
 {
"monitoring":{
    "metrics":{
        "beat":{
            "cpu":{
                "system":{
                   "ticks":174,
                    "time":175
                },
                "total":{
                    "ticks":359,
                    "time":360,
                    "value":359
                },
                "user":{
                    "ticks":185,
                    "time":185
                }
            },
            "info":{
                "ephemeral_id":"4d2ab930-71fe-461b-8c2c-228782c15a25",
                "uptime":{
                    "ms":1980009
                }
            },
            "memstats":{
                "gc_next":4194304,
                "memory_alloc":2007944,
                "memory_total":42777120
            }
        },
        "filebeat":{
            "harvester":{
                "open_files":0,
                "running":0
            }
        },
        "libbeat":{
            "config":{
                "module":{
                    "running":0
                }
            },
            "pipeline":{
                "clients":1,
                "events":{
                    "active":0
                }
            }
        },
        "registrar":{
            "states":{
                "current":3
            }
        },
        "system":{
            "load":{
                "1":2.1313,
                "5":1.8462,
                "15":1.6543,
                "norm":{
                    "1":0.5328,
                    "5":0.4615,
                    "15":0.4136
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

```

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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 30, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-the-original-indicator-of-monitoring-in-the-log-file-of-filebeat/193434/2 "2019-08-30T02:08:44Z")

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