# Question about system.process.cpu.total.pct

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-system-process-cpu-total-pct/78926
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-system-process-cpu-total-pct/78926 "2017-03-16T20:04:26Z")
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### Author: ![misabel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/misabel/32/15642_2.png) [@misabel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misabel)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-system-process-cpu-total-pct/78926/5 "2017-03-21T12:21:37Z")

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That would be one overachieving VM! 😄 The problem is that I would have to create some sort of calculated field based on the number of vCPU in that VM in order to get something meaningful across the board. I'll try to dig which metric is being grabbed in Windows to get this.

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