| This graph shows how CPU time is spent. | |||||
| Field | Internal name | Type | Warn | Crit | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| system | system | derive | CPU time spent by the kernel in system activities | ||
| user | user | derive | CPU time spent by normal programs and daemons | ||
| nice | nice | derive | CPU time spent by nice(1)d programs | ||
| idle | idle | derive | Idle CPU time | ||
| iowait | iowait | derive | CPU time spent waiting for I/O operations to finish when there is nothing else to do. | ||
| irq | irq | derive | CPU time spent handling interrupts | ||
| softirq | softirq | derive | CPU time spent handling "batched" interrupts | ||
| steal | steal | derive | The time that a virtual CPU had runnable tasks, but the virtual CPU itself was not running | ||
| guest | guest | derive | The time spent running a virtual CPU for guest operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel. | ||