# Metricbeat odd CPU percentage values
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 7, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420 "2018-01-07T19:01:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Zappelphilipp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zappelphilipp)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420/1 "2018-01-07T19:01:05Z")
hi,
i am pretty new to the beats family and i am using metricbeat in a small invironment with Graylog and Kibana. There is one maschine which inputs me very strange values for the following items. i added some real values which, in my optionion, cant be correct.
- metricbeat\_system\_cpu\_idle\_pct: 2.9016
- metricbeat\_system\_cpu\_system\_pct: 0.6281
- metricbeat\_system\_cpu\_total\_pct: 1.0984
- metricbeat\_system\_cpu\_user\_pct: 0.4703
all of my other maschines are reporting values below 1 which makes sense to me. The setup is exactly the same, metricbeat for windows feeding into graylog via Logstash.
Did i something wrong?
EDIT: dumb me, seems like it depend on how many cores the machine has. Now i just have to find out how to compare differend machine CPU values in kibana. Thank you 😉
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420/2 "2018-01-07T20:52:39Z")
Note that as of Metricbeat 6.0, you can choose between `percentages` and `normalized_percentages` (or have them both): [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.1/metricbeat-metricset-system-cpu.html#\_configuration\_3](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.1/metricbeat-metricset-system-cpu.html#_configuration_3)
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### Author:  [@Zappelphilipp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zappelphilipp)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420/3 "2018-01-08T08:57:28Z")
yep, i found that out just shortly after writing my question. It wasnt that easy how to change the settings though. The metricbeats documentation about the cpu metrics is a bit confusing imo. thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@dedemorton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dedemorton)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420/4 "2018-01-08T23:57:07Z")
Yah, the docs need work. I've created an issue to track this here:
[https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6020](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6020). Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-odd-cpu-percentage-values/114420/5 "2018-01-28T19:01:10Z")
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