# Metricbeat CPU information is wrong

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cpu-information-is-wrong/131390>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cpu-information-is-wrong/131390 "2018-05-11T04:20:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![lserranov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lserranov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lserranov)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cpu-information-is-wrong/131390/3 "2018-05-11T17:00:45Z")

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Hi @kvch,

I did the change you suggested, I still see the system reporting in the scale of 1 instead of 100%:

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2018-05-11T09:58:55.199-0700 DEBUG [publish] pipeline/processor.go:275 Publish event: {  
"@timestamp": "2018-05-11T16:58:55.198Z",  
"@metadata": {  
"beat": "metricbeat",  
"type": "doc",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
},  
"metricset": {  
"name": "cpu",  
"module": "system",  
"rtt": 172  
},  
"system": {  
"cpu": {  
"cores": 2,  
"system": {  
"pct": 0.007  
},  
"idle": {  
"pct": 0.9965  
},  
"nice": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"softirq": {  
"pct": 0.001  
},  
"iowait": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"steal": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"total": {  
"pct": 1.0035  
},  
"irq": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"user": {  
"pct": 0.9955  
}  
}  
},  
"beat": {  
"name": "apache",  
"hostname": "apache",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
}  
}  
2018-05-11T09:58:55.201-0700 DEBUG [publish] pipeline/processor.go:275 Publish event: {  
"@timestamp": "2018-05-11T16:58:55.200Z",  
"@metadata": {  
"beat": "metricbeat",  
"type": "doc",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
},  
"metricset": {  
"rtt": 125,  
"name": "cpu",  
"module": "system"  
},  
"system": {  
"cpu": {  
"irq": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"total": {  
"pct": 1.004  
},  
"idle": {  
"pct": 0.996  
},  
"nice": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"softirq": {  
"pct": 0.001  
},  
"cores": 2,  
"system": {  
"pct": 0.007  
},  
"steal": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"user": {  
"pct": 0.996  
},  
"iowait": {  
"pct": 0  
}  
}  
},  
"beat": {  
"name": "apache",  
"hostname": "apache",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
}  
}  
2018-05-11T09:58:55.201-0700 DEBUG [publish] pipeline/processor.go:275 Publish event: {  
"@timestamp": "2018-05-11T16:58:55.201Z",  
"@metadata": {  
"beat": "metricbeat",  
"type": "doc",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
},  
"metricset": {  
"module": "system",  
"rtt": 132,  
"name": "cpu"  
},  
"system": {  
"cpu": {  
"idle": {  
"pct": 0.996,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0.498  
}  
},  
"irq": {  
"pct": 0,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0  
}  
},  
"nice": {  
"pct": 0,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0  
}  
},  
"system": {  
"pct": 0.007,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0.0035  
}  
},  
"iowait": {  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0  
},  
"pct": 0  
},  
"total": {  
"pct": 1.004,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0.502  
}  
},  
"cores": 2,  
"softirq": {  
"pct": 0.001,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0.0005  
}  
},  
"steal": {  
"pct": 0,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0  
}  
},  
"user": {  
"pct": 0.996,  
"norm": {  
"pct": 0.498  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"beat": {  
"name": "apache",  
"hostname": "apache",  
"version": "6.2.4"  
}  
}

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My config is like this:

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- module: system  
period: 10s  
metricsets:

- module: system  
period: 1m  
metricsets:

- module: system  
period: 15m  
metricsets:

- module: system  
metricsets: cpu

- module: system  
metricsets: [cpu]  
cpu.metrics: ["percentages", "normalized\_percentages"]

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