topic Re: Process consuming high CPU in Alerting

Process consuming high CPU

ssamraj — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:54:26 GMT

Hi Team,

Is it possible monitor which process is consuming high CPU (for Processor "_Total" rather than individual cores) on a windows server? If yes, any insights on this would be helpful.

Many thanks,

Srikanth Samraj

Re: Process consuming high CPU

ssamraj — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:16:33 GMT

To top up my previous ask, this must be through custom event for alerting..

Re: Process consuming high CPU

AntonioSousa — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:59:18 GMT

You should be able to see this through the Host page, clicking "Consuming processes":

When the new page appears, select the processes you are interested in, and then you will be able to check in the graph the CPU (or other metrics) contribution:

You can also do this with Data Explorer, with filtering & splitting, but this is a quick way. You can also define specific alerting if needed.

Re: Process consuming high CPU

mgome — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:52:09 GMT

The Process CPU usage (builtin:tech.generic.cpu.usage) metric should give you what you're looking.

Percent of host CPU time used by processes in PGI

It has a Process (dt.entity.process_group_instance) dimension. You can specify this dimension in the custom event message using a placeholder, {dims:dt.entity.process_group_instance.name}

Re: Process consuming high CPU

ssamraj — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:54:46 GMT

Thanks much. Is this process usage captured as an average rather than at individual cores?

Re: Process consuming high CPU

AntonioSousa — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:19:18 GMT

This is the percentage of total CPU, so if you've got 25% on a 4 core system, it means the process is using a full core...

Re: Process consuming high CPU

ssamraj — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:03:27 GMT

thanks much AntonioSousa