Performance Counters for CPU Usage

This table contains the values for each category of the counters that measure CPU performance.

GROUP NAME: cpu

Counter Name Category Value
usage
unit Percentage, precision to 1/100 percentage point. 1 = 0.01%. A value between 0 and 10000.
description CPU usage as a percentage over the interval of collection.
statistic type rate
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine
usagemhz
unit MHz
description CPU usage in MHz over the interval of collection.
statistic type rate
rollup type average, minimum, maximum
entity host, virtual machine, compute resources and resource pools
system
unit millisecond
description CPU time spent on system processes.
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
wait
unit millisecond
description CPU time spent on wait state.
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
ready
unit millisecond
description CPU time spent on ready state.
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
extra
unit millisecond
description CPU time that is extra.
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
used
unit millisecond
description CPU time that is used.
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
guaranteed
unit millisecond
description CPU time that is guaranteed for the virtual machine
statistic type delta
rollup type summation
entity virtual machine, device instance only
reservedCapacity
unit MHz
description CPU reserved capacity
statistic type absolute
rollup type average
entity host, virtual machine, resource pools