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ecs_task_cpu_utilization and ecs_task_cpu_usage_vcpu have the wrong units listed #35640

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angelov-g opened this issue Oct 7, 2024 · 1 comment
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I believe that the README.md regarding the awsecscontainermetrics receiver might be a little misleading. In the table it's specified that the unit for the metric ecs_task_cpu_utilized is a percentage, but I believe it should be units of vCPU. On a similar note the metric ecs_task_cpu_usage_vcpu is the one that should be a percentage.

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I'd like to receive some clarification on the mentioned metrics and/or a fix in the README.md

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This first caught my attention when I tried to create an alert based on the ecs_task_cpu_utilized metric (e.g. ecs_task_cpu_utilized > 80 for when the CPU usage exceeded 80 percent). However this metric went up to values such as 200+. I then looked more into what ecs_task_cpu_usage_vcpu gives as a value. It seemed that values such as 0.2 are pretty low in terms of vCPU. I then made a comparison and came to the conclusion that ecs_task_cpu_usage_vcpu * 1024 = ecs_task_cpu_utilized. I've since reconfigured my alert to be something like ecs_task_cpu_utilized / ecs_task_cpu_reserved * 100 to actually get a percentage of CPU usage.

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