How to interpret value of key overall_percent_cpu_usage returned by REST API

[Jernej Vodopivec]

Hi, how can I interpret the value of key overall_percent_cpu_usage returned by REST API?

string(90) "http://192.168.42.42:6080/api/v1.0/stats/mail_system_capacity/overall_percent_cpu_usage/help"

Overall average percent cpu usage.
3815284

[Robert Sherwin · Accepted solution]

This should be comparable to the values you'll see on the GUI from Monitor > System Capacity > System Load ...

If you export those values overall - you'll see the CPU usage for the time period selected.  This should give you an idea of the overall value and results that you get when running the API on-the-fly.  If you were to export that report to CSV - you should see the CPU usage:

Begin Date	End Date	CPU Usage
2015-03-09 22:00 GMT	2015-03-09 22:59 GMT	0.11842
2015-03-09 23:00 GMT	2015-03-09 23:59 GMT	0.08483
2015-03-10 00:00 GMT	2015-03-10 00:59 GMT	0.06375
2015-03-10 01:00 GMT	2015-03-10 01:59 GMT	0.10458
2015-03-10 02:00 GMT	2015-03-10 02:59 GMT	0.1125
2015-03-10 03:00 GMT	2015-03-10 03:59 GMT	0.09575
2015-03-10 04:00 GMT	2015-03-10 04:59 GMT	0.07308

-Robert

[Jernej Vodopivec]

Hi Robert,

I don't know what happened yesterday but I got the value 3815284 for Overall average percent cpu usage parameter from REST API.

There are normal/expected values shown today: I get "6" from REST API, and 6,6688 if I export values from GUI and calculate average.

Thank you!