# Kibana stack monitoring: Normalized vs not-normalized CPU utilization
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133 "2019-12-02T08:18:21Z")
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### Author:  [@marko\_vranjkovic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marko_vranjkovic)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133/1 "2019-12-02T08:18:22Z")
After compering CPU utilization in Kibana Stack monitoring and other tools my conclusion is that for default config:
- Filebeat CPU utilization is not normalized, meaning for 4 cores the utilization goes from 0% to 400%
- Elasticsearch CPU utilization on the other hand is normalized, i.e. for 4 cores it goes from 0% to 100%
**Can someone confirm my assumption?**
if this is default behavior, it's pretty confusing.
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### Author:  [@Liza\_Katz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Liza_Katz)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133/2 "2019-12-02T10:48:27Z")
Hey, I suspect this post belongs in the [beats](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats) group.
There you will get help from the relevant team members.
Thanks,
Liza
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### Author:  [@marko\_vranjkovic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marko_vranjkovic)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133/3 "2019-12-19T08:41:00Z")
created separate posts for Elasticsearch and Filebeat
> [@Elasticsearch CPU utilization metrics are normalized by default](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cpu-utilization-metrics-are-normalized-by-default/210660):
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> Can someone confirm that by using all default settings Elasticsearch CPU utilization metrics in Kibana stack monitoring are normalized, e.g. for 4 CPUs the CPU utilization goes from 0% to 100%. This question is just a first part from the original question: [Kibana stack monitoring: Normalized vs not-normalized CPU utilization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133)
> [@Filebeat CPU utilization metrics are not normalized by default](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-cpu-utilization-metrics-are-not-normalized-by-default/210659):
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> Can someone confirm that by using all default settings Filebeat CPU utilization metrics in Kibana stack monitoring are not normalized, e.g. for 4 CPUs the CPU utilization goes from 0% to 400%. This question is just a first part from the original question: [Kibana stack monitoring: Normalized vs not-normalized CPU utilization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-normalized-vs-not-normalized-cpu-utilization/210133/4 "2020-01-16T08:41:07Z")
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