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Linux CPU Input Plugin

This plugin gathers CPU metrics exposed on Linux systems.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.24.0 Tags: system OS support: linux

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Provides Linux CPU metrics
# This plugin ONLY supports Linux
[[inputs.linux_cpu]]
  ## Path for sysfs filesystem.
  ## See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
  ## Defaults:
  # host_sys = "/sys"

  ## CPU metrics collected by the plugin.
  ## Supported options:
  ## "cpufreq", "thermal"
  ## Defaults:
  # metrics = ["cpufreq"]

Metrics

The following tags are emitted by the plugin under the name linux_cpu:

TagDescription
cpuIdentifier of the CPU

The following fields are emitted by the plugin when selecting cpufreq:

Metric name (field)DescriptionUnits
scaling_cur_freqCurrent frequency of the CPU as determined by CPUFreqKHz
scaling_min_freqMinimum frequency the governor can scale toKHz
scaling_max_freqMaximum frequency the governor can scale toKHz
cpuinfo_cur_freqCurrent frequency of the CPU as determined by the hardwareKHz
cpuinfo_min_freqMinimum operating frequency of the CPUKHz
cpuinfo_max_freqMaximum operating frequency of the CPUKHz

The following fields are emitted by the plugin when selecting thermal:

Metric name (field)DescriptionUnits
throttle_countNumber of thermal throttle events reported by the CPU
throttle_max_timeMaximum amount of time CPU was in throttled statems
throtlle_total_timeCumulative time during which the CPU was in throttled statems

Example Output

linux_cpu,cpu=0,host=go scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=803157i,scaling_min_freq=400000i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=1,host=go throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=802939i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=10,host=go throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=838343i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=11,host=go cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=800054i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=2,host=go throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=800404i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=3,host=go throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=800126i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=4,host=go cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=800359i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=5,host=go throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=800093i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=6,host=go cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=741646i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=7,host=go scaling_cur_freq=700006i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=8,host=go throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=700046i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i,throttle_count=0i 1617621150000000000
linux_cpu,cpu=9,host=go throttle_count=0i,throttle_max_time=0i,throttle_total_time=0i,scaling_cur_freq=700075i,scaling_min_freq=400000i,scaling_max_freq=4700000i,cpuinfo_min_freq=400000i,cpuinfo_max_freq=4700000i 1617621150000000000

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