System.cpu.total.norm.pct missing

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I'm creating my first dashboard to report on resource utilization of some VM's. One of the VMs has multiple cores, and system.cpu.total.pct is reporting percentages > 100%. According to the documentation I can use the normalized system.cpu.total.norm.pct, but it is not present in my metricbeat index?

I have installed the version 7.3.1 of the Metirbeat. Do I need to make any changes to the metricbeat system model config file?

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Hi @Ron.Janssen! Thanks for posting here. For normalized percentage metric, there is a configuration that needs to be enabled: cpu.metrics: ["normalized_percentages"]
Please see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.3/metricbeat-module-system.html#_example_configuration_39 for more details.