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    How to Calculate Zabbix CPU Load

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    • wirestyle22W
      wirestyle22
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      But the trigger is set to 5. The CPU Utilization is showing only 30% so I just need to change the trigger realistically, right?

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre
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        I talked with him about this. This is a Windows Box. I think windows calculates the CPU Load differently than a Linux machine.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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          @wirestyle22 said in How to Calculate Zabbix CPU Load:

          But the trigger is set to 5.

          That's pretty dumb. 5 is totally arbitrary and has no meaning for load. It's not showing load factor (which should stay at 1 or below) and doesn't show what it takes to determine load factor. So the alarm is useless. You'd have to factor load factor manually and set a proper alarm yourself.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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            @wirestyle22 said in How to Calculate Zabbix CPU Load:

            The CPU Utilization is showing only 30% so I just need to change the trigger realistically, right?

            CPU has a load of 30, we have no idea what the utilization percentage is. That's not shown here. We have no way to know what is going on with only this information. We don't know the load factor or the percentage of utilization nor the thread count.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @dafyre
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              @dafyre said in How to Calculate Zabbix CPU Load:

              I talked with him about this. This is a Windows Box. I think windows calculates the CPU Load differently than a Linux machine.

              Should not, it's a standard thing. Not really OS dependent.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                CPU load is the number of threads in a runnable state on the system. On the windows agent, it's measured using an averaged "processor queue length" perfmon counter.

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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22
                  last edited by wirestyle22

                  This is CPU utilization within Zabbix (what I was referring to)

                  0_1482960988928_chart2.png

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    There we go, see how low the percentage is? That's 1% - 5% only. This suggests that your load is just fine. But figuring out your load factor is critical to knowing if everything is okay and what a threshold should be. What's your thread engine count for this VM?

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                    • wirestyle22W
                      wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in How to Calculate Zabbix CPU Load:

                      There we go, see how low the percentage is? That's 1% - 5% only. This suggests that your load is just fine. But figuring out your load factor is critical to knowing if everything is okay and what a threshold should be. What's your thread engine count for this VM?

                      I actually uploaded the wrong one. The new one I just put up is accurate.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Okay, still not bad. Only peaking at 30% and not often at all.

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