CPU Usage

    The following tables describes the information generated by the plugin. The keys below represent the data used by the overall system, all values associated to the keys are in a percentage unit (0 to 100%):

    The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

    Getting Started

    As described above, the CPU input plugin gathers the overall usage every one second and flushed the information to the output on the fifth second. On this example we used the stdout plugin to demonstrate the output records. In a real use-case you may want to flush this information to some central aggregator such as or Elasticsearch.

    Configuration File

    2.     Name cpu
    5.     Name  stdout