| 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. |
