# Need to understand metricbeat cpu metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 7, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823 "2018-05-07T11:14:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SeemaAccenture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SeemaAccenture](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SeemaAccenture)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823/1 "2018-05-07T11:14:59Z")

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Hi,

I have set metricbeat to for CPU and Memory utilization .After running metricbeat conf through logstash this I am getting below kind of data :  
"system" =\> {  
"cpu" =\> {  
"softirq" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0  
},  
"irq" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0  
},  
"total" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 2.0719  
},  
"system" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 1.4672  
},  
"user" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0.6047  
},  
"iowait" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0  
},  
"nice" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0  
},  
"cores" =\> 4,  
"steal" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 0  
},  
"idle" =\> {  
"pct" =\> 1.9281  
}  
}

as I understand actually CPU utilization is: system.cpu.total.pct but I did not understand 2.0719 value.To show in % do we need to multiply by 100 or not and also this value is for all cores available in system.

Please clear me abt this doubt.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823/2 "2018-05-07T13:11:57Z")

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Perhaps this question is better suited for the Beats category? It's not really a Logstash question.

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**Author:** ![SeemaAccenture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SeemaAccenture](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SeemaAccenture)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823/3 "2018-05-09T08:57:59Z")

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Hi,

Can anyone help me in this.

Thanks,

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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:** [June 6, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-understand-metricbeat-cpu-metrics/130823/4 "2018-06-06T09:05:10Z")

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