Kibana Monitoring Elasticsearch nodes doesn't show CPU usage

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I'm having an issue with CPU stats shown for Elasticsearch nodes in Kibana Monitoring.

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The problem is that CPU Usage is always 0.

Kibana and Elasticsearch both run as docker containers and version 5.3.2.

Checking the kibana requests using the browser's developer tools I can see that the request to /api/monitoring/v1/clusters/uuid/elasticsearch/nodes returns:

            "node_cgroup_quota": {
                "metric": {
                    "app": "elasticsearch",
                    "field": "node_stats.process.cpu.percent",
                    "label": "Cgroup CPU Utilization",
                    "title": "CPU Utilization",
                    "description": "CPU Usage time compared to the CPU quota shown in percentage. If CPU quotas are not set, then the OS level CPU usage in percentage is shown.",
                    "units": "%",
                    "format": "0,0.[00]"
                },
                "min": null,
                "max": null,
                "slope": null
            },

The weird thing is that if I go to a node's detail page it shows cpu usage:

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Is there any configuration I'm missing? This was a 5.1.1 cluster that was upgraded to 5.3.2, and when it was 5.1.1 cpu stats were showing fine.

Thanks!

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Hi @jaquisar1,

The fact that the node list is showing the CPU Throttling suggests that someone has enabled the Monitoring UI Container settings:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/monitoring-settings.html#monitoring-ui-cgroup-settings

Given that there is no throttling (all zeroes), I assume these are not running in containers, so this setting should be turned off in the kibana.yml, which is its default value (so it can be removed):

xpack.monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: false
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Thank you @pickypg!! You pointed me in the right direction.

At first I was running Kibana with a custom docker image and then I moved to docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana image, the new image has the setting you mentioned in true (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/_configuring_kibana_on_docker.html#_docker_defaults).

In order to disable it I added the XPACK_MONITORING_UI_CONTAINER_ELASTICSEARCH_ENABLED with false.

Thanks!

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