cpu collector

The cpu collector exposes metrics about CPU usage


Metric name prefix	`cpu`
Data source	Perflib
Counters	`ProcessorInformation` (Windows Server 2008R2 and later) `Processor` (older versions)
Enabled by default?	Yes

Flags

None

Metrics

These metrics are available on all versions of Windows:

Name	Description	Type	Labels
`wmi_cpu_cstate_seconds_total`	Time spent in low-power idle states	counter	`core`, `state`
`wmi_cpu_time_total`	Time that processor spent in different modes (idle, user, system, ...)	counter	`core`, `mode`
`wmi_cpu_interrupts_total`	Total number of received and serviced hardware interrupts	counter	`core`
`wmi_cpu_dpcs_total`	Total number of received and serviced deferred procedure calls (DPCs)	counter	`core`

These metrics are only exposed on Windows Server 2008R2 and later:

Name	Description	Type
`wmi_cpu_clock_interrupts_total`	Total number of received and serviced clock tick interrupts	`core`
`wmi_cpu_idle_break_events_total`	Total number of time processor was woken from idle	`core`
`wmi_cpu_parking_status`	Parking Status represents whether a processor is parked or not	`gauge`
`wmi_cpu_core_frequency_mhz`	Core frequency in megahertz	`gauge`
`wmi_cpu_processor_performance`	Processor Performance is the average performance of the processor while it is executing instructions, as a percentage of the nominal performance of the processor. On some processors, Processor Performance may exceed 100%	`gauge`

Example metric

Show frequency of host CPU cores

wmi_cpu_core_frequency_mhz{instance="localhost"}

Useful queries

Show cpu usage by mode.

sum by (mode) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{instance="localhost"}[5m]))

Alerting examples

prometheus.rules

# Alert on hosts with more than 80% CPU usage over a 10 minute period
- alert: CpuUsage
  expr: 100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{mode="idle"}[2m])) * 100) > 80
  for: 10m
  labels:
    severity: warning
  annotations:
    summary: "CPU Usage (instance {{ $labels.instance }})"
    description: "CPU Usage is more than 80%\n  VALUE = {{ $value }}\n  LABELS: {{ $labels }}"

2.2 KiB Raw Blame History