# System.cpu.total.norm.pct missing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/system-cpu-total-norm-pct-missing/199840>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/system-cpu-total-norm-pct-missing/199840 "2019-09-17T14:23:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ron.Janssen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@Ron.Janssen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ron.Janssen)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/system-cpu-total-norm-pct-missing/199840/1 "2019-09-17T14:23:38Z")

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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?

 ![pct](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/d/5db69cd3da9060b9adc3a5b09b70d54c3b5e4e58.png)

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/system-cpu-total-norm-pct-missing/199840/2 "2019-09-24T14:44:11Z")

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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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.3/metricbeat-module-system.html#_example_configuration_39) for more details.

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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:** [October 22, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/system-cpu-total-norm-pct-missing/199840/3 "2019-10-22T14:44:11Z")

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