check_cpu.md

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Introduction

check_cpu is a plugin to check cpu usage and cpu io wait. It reads cpu data from output of top command and shows

hwi - Time spent handling hardware interrupt routines. (Whenever a peripheral unit want attention form the CPU, it literally pulls a line, to signal the CPU to service it) swi - Time spent handling software interrupt routines. (a piece of code, calls an interrupt routine...) st - Time spent on involuntary waits by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (stolen from a virtual machine)

nice - Time spent running niced user processes (User defined priority) wait - Time spent on waiting on IO peripherals (eg. disk)

system - Time spent in kernel space user - Time spent in user space idle - Time spent in idle operations

For all values it sends performance data.

If there are processes with status D they will be shown (to analyze cpu waits).

Syntax

$ check_NAME [-c CRITICAL] [-w WARING] [-i CRITICAL_IO]

Parameters

    -w VALUE       cpu usage warning level  (default: 75)
    -c VALUE       cpu usage critical level (default: 90)

    -i VALUE       io wait critical level   (default: 50)

    -h or --help   show this help.

Examples

check_cpu -w 60 -c 80 -i 40 check cpu usage. It shows a warning if usage is higer 60%. It shows critical status if usage is higer 80% or io wait is 40%