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System core metricset

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System core metricset

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The System core metricset provides usage statistics for each CPU core.

This metricset is available on:

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Windows

Configuration

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core.metrics

This option controls what metrics are reported for each CPU core. The value is a list and two metric types are supported - percentages and ticks. The default value is core.metrics: [percentages].

metricbeat.modules:
- module: system
  metricsets: [core]
  core.metrics: [percentages, ticks]

Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "event": {
        "dataset": "system.core",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "system"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "core",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "system"
    },
    "system": {
        "core": {
            "id": 0,
            "idle": {
                "pct": 0.9638,
                "ticks": 240932600
            },
            "iowait": {
                "pct": 0,
                "ticks": 10534
            },
            "irq": {
                "pct": 0.002,
                "ticks": 379774
            },
            "nice": {
                "pct": 0.002,
                "ticks": 70354
            },
            "softirq": {
                "pct": 0.002,
                "ticks": 498856
            },
            "steal": {
                "pct": 0,
                "ticks": 0
            },
            "system": {
                "pct": 0.0201,
                "ticks": 4072735
            },
            "total": {
                "pct": 0.0362
            },
            "user": {
                "pct": 0.0101,
                "ticks": 7020807
            }
            "model_number": "165",
            "model_name": "Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz",
            "mhz": 4359.983,
            "core_id": 5,
            "physical_id": 0,
        }
    }
}

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