Metrics Description
CPU (perf & turbostat-derived)
Perf
Perf:Branches.*[count] β Number of branch instructions executed (cumulative counter).
Perf:Branch_Misses.*[count] β Number of branch prediction misses (cumulative counter).
Perf:Cycles.*[count] β CPU cycles executed (cumulative counter).
Perf:Instructions.*[count] β Instructions retired (cumulative counter).
Perf:IPC.*[-] β Instructions per cycle (IPC). Typically computed or sampled (instantaneous / derived).
Perf:BranchUtilization.*[%] β Branch unit utilization percent (sampled/instant).
Perf:CacheUtilization.*[%] β Cache utilization percent (sampled/instant).
Perf:StallRatio.*[%] β Fraction of cycles spent stalled (sampled/instant).
Perf:OccupancyRatio.*[%] β Execution-unit occupancy/saturation percent (sampled/instant).
Turbostat (per-core / package readings and derived)
Fields with \<n\> repeat per CPU core index. Fields with .- indicate package-level or special entries present in headers.
Avg_MHz (per-core)
Turbostat:Avg_MHz.<n>.*[MHz] β Average frequency of core <n> in the sample interval. (instant / sampled)
Turbostat:Avg_MHz.-.*[MHz] β Package-level / special average frequency entry. (instant)
Busy% (per-core)
Turbostat:Busy%.<n>.*[%] β Percent of sample interval core <n> was busy. (sampled)
Turbostat:Busy%.-.*[%] β Package-level / special Busy% entry. (sampled)
Bzy_MHz (per-core)
Turbostat:Bzy_MHz.<n>.*[MHz] β Effective frequency when core <n> was busy (MHz). (sampled / derived)
Turbostat:Bzy_MHz.-.*[MHz] β Aggregate / special entry. (sampled)
TSC_MHz (per-core)
Turbostat:TSC_MHz.<n>.*[MHz] β Timestamp Counter frequency estimate for core <n>. (sampled / diagnostic)
Turbostat:TSC_MHz.-.*[MHz] β Aggregate / special entry.
IRQ (per-core)
Turbostat:IRQ.<n>.*[count] β Number of interrupts handled by core <n> (cumulative counter).
Turbostat:IRQ.-.*[count] β Aggregate / special.
SMI (per-core)
Turbostat:SMI.<n>.*[count] β System Management Interrupts on core <n> (cumulative counter).
Turbostat:SMI.-.*[count] β Aggregate / special.
CPU C-state residency (per-core)
Turbostat:CPU%c1.<n>.*[%] β Percent time core <n> spent in C1 low-power state (sampled).
Turbostat:CPU%c1.-.*[%] β Aggregate / special.
Turbostat:CPU%c6.<n>.*[%] β Percent time core <n> spent in C6 deep low-power state (sampled).
Turbostat:CPU%c6.-.*[%] β Aggregate / special.
Core & Package temps / power / package state / utilization
Turbostat:CoreTmp.<n>.*[C] β Temperature of core <n> (Β°C). (sampled)
Turbostat:CoreTmp.-.*[C] β Aggregate / special core temperature. (sampled)
Turbostat:PkgTmp.<n>.*[C] β Package temperature reading (may appear for multiple package indices). (sampled)
Turbostat:PkgTmp.-.*[C] β Aggregate package temperature. (sampled)
Turbostat:Pkg%pc2.<n>.*[%] β Package time fraction spent in PC2 power state (percent). (sampled)
Turbostat:Pkg%pc6.<n>.*[%] β Package time fraction spent in PC6 power state (percent). (sampled)
Turbostat:PkgWatt.<n>.*[W] β Package-level power consumption (watts). (sampled)
Turbostat:RAMWatt.<n>.*[W] β RAM subsystem power (watts). (sampled)
Turbostat:PKG_%.<n>.*[%] β Package utilization percent (sampled/derived).
Turbostat:RAM_%.<n>.*[%] β RAM utilization percent (sampled/derived).
Note: header sometimes lists specific core indices (e.g., .0, .24), <n> generalizes these. Replace <n> with actual core index when referring to concrete columns.
CPU utilization (per core & average)
CPU:CPU<n>Utilization.*[%] β Utilization percent of CPU core <n> (sampled / instant).
AverageCPUUtilization.*[%] β Average CPU utilization across tracked cores (sampled / derived).
Memory (perf-derived & /proc/meminfo style)
Perf-derived memory metrics
Perf:Cache_Misses.*[count] β Cache misses (cumulative counter).
Perf:Cache_References.*[count] β Cache reference accesses (cumulative counter).
Perf:Cycle_activity_cycles_l3_miss.*[count] β Cycles lost due to L3 cache misses (cumulative counter).
Perf:Cycle_activity_stalls_l3_miss.*[count] β Stalls caused by L3 misses (cumulative counter).
Perf:Hle_retired_aborted.*[count] β HLE (hardware lock elision) aborted transactions (cumulative counter).
Perf:Hle_retired_commit.*[count] β HLE committed transactions (cumulative counter).
Perf:Mem_trans_retired_load_latency_gt_128.*[count] β Loads with latency >128 cycles (cumulative counter).
Perf:Mem_trans_retired_load_latency_gt_256.*[count] β Loads with latency >256 cycles (cumulative counter).
Perf:Mem-loads.*[count] β Memory load operations (cumulative counter).
Perf:Mem-stores.*[count] β Memory store operations (cumulative counter).
Memory snapshot / /proc/meminfo-style fields (units in kB, typically instantaneous/sample):
Memory:Active.*[kB] β Amount of active (recently used) memory. (instant)
Memory:AnonHugePages.*[kB] β Anonymous hugepages memory. (instant)
Memory:AnonPages.*[kB] β Anonymous pages (non-file-backed). (instant)
Memory:Bounce.*[kB] β Bounce buffer memory used (DMA-related). (instant)
Memory:Buffers.*[kB] β Kernel buffers. (instant)
Memory:Cached.*[kB] β File pages cached in memory. (instant)
Memory:CommitLimit.*[kB] β Commit limit for virtual memory. (instant)
Memory:Committed_AS.*[kB] β Committed virtual memory. (instant)
Memory:DirectMap1G.*[kB] β 1 GiB direct-mapped pages. (instant)
Memory:DirectMap2M.*[kB] β 2 MiB direct-mapped pages. (instant)
Memory:DirectMap4k.*[kB] β 4 KiB direct-mapped pages. (instant)
Memory:Dirty.*[kB] β Pages waiting to be written to storage. (instant)
Memory:HardwareCorrupted.*[kB] β Memory marked as hardware-corrupted. (instant)
Memory:Hugepagesize.*[kB] β Hugepage size. (instant)
Memory:Hugetlb.*[kB] β hugetlb allocations. (instant)
Memory:Inactive.*[kB] β Inactive page cache. (instant)
Memory:KReclaimable.*[kB] β Kernel reclaimable memory. (instant)
Memory:KernelStack.*[kB] β Kernel stack usage. (instant)
Memory:Mapped.*[kB] β Mapped files/devices. (instant)
Memory:MemAvailable.*[kB] β Estimated available memory. (instant)
Memory:MemFree.*[kB] β Free physical memory. (instant)
Memory:MemTotal.*[kB] β Total physical memory. (instant)
Memory:Mlocked.*[kB] β Memory locked by mlock. (instant)
Memory:NFS_Unstable.*[kB] β NFS unstable writeback memory. (instant)
Memory:PageTables.*[kB] β Memory used by page tables. (instant)
Memory:SReclaimable.*[kB] β Reclaimable slab memory. (instant)
Memory:SUnreclaim.*[kB] β Unreclaimable slab memory. (instant)
Memory:Shmem.*[kB] β Shared memory usage. (instant)
Memory:ShmemHugePages.*[kB] β Shared memory hugepages. (instant)
Memory:ShmemPmdMapped.*[kB] β PMD-mapped shared memory. (instant)
Memory:Slab.*[kB] β Kernel slab usage. (instant)
Memory:SwapCached.*[kB] β Swap cached memory. (instant)
Memory:SwapFree.*[kB] β Free swap space. (instant)
Memory:SwapTotal.*[kB] β Total swap space. (instant)
Memory:Unevictable.*[kB] β Unevictable pages. (instant)
Memory:VmallocChunk.*[kB] β Largest contiguous vmalloc chunk. (instant)
Memory:VmallocTotal.*[kB] β Total vmalloc address space. (instant)
Memory:VmallocUsed.*[kB] β Vmalloc used. (instant)
Memory:Writeback.*[kB] β Currently writing back pages. (instant)
Memory:WritebackTmp.*[kB] β Temporary writeback usage. (instant)
Memory:MemoryUtilization.*[%] β Memory utilization percent (sampled/derived).
Storage (Storage: prefix)
Storage:reads_completed_successfully.*[count] β Number of successful read operations (cumulative counter).
Storage:reads_merged.*[count] β Number of merged read requests (cumulative counter).
Storage:sectors_read.*[sectors] β Sectors read (cumulative counter). Multiply by sector size to get bytes.
Storage:writes_completed.*[count] β Number of successful write operations (cumulative counter).
Storage:writes_merged.*[count] β Number of merged write requests (cumulative counter).
Storage:sectors_written.*[sectors] β Sectors written (cumulative counter).
Storage:discards_completed_successfully.*[count] β Successful discard (trim) operations (cumulative counter).
Storage:discards_merged.*[count] β Merged discard requests (cumulative counter).
Storage:sectors_discarded.*[sectors] β Discarded sectors (cumulative).
Storage:time_spent_reading_(ms).*[ms] β Total milliseconds spent on reads in sample window (sampled/aggregate).
Storage:time_spent_writing_(ms).*[ms] β Total milliseconds spent on writes in sample window (sampled/aggregate).
Storage:I/Os_currently_in_progress.*[count] β Current number of I/O operations in progress (instant).
Storage:time_spent_doing_I/Os_(ms).*[ms] β Total milliseconds spent doing I/Os (sampled/aggregate).
Storage:weighted_time_spent_doing_I/Os_(ms).*[ms] β Weighted I/O time metric (sampled/aggregate).
Storage:time_spent_discarding.*[ms] β Milliseconds spent processing discard operations (sampled).
GPU (device-specific fields; device index replaced by <n>)
Device-specific fields
GPU: pcie.link.gen.current.<n>.*[generation] β Current PCIe link generation between GPU <n> and host (categorical).
GPU: pcie.link.width.current.<n>.*[lanes] β Current PCIe link width (lanes).
GPU: accounting.buffer_size.<n>.*[MB] β Accounting buffer size used for GPU memory accounting (MB). (instant)
GPU: fan.speed.<n>.*[%] β Fan speed percent or relative metric for GPU <n> (sampled).
GPU: memory.used.<n>.*[MiB] β GPU memory used (MiB) (instant).
GPU: memory.free.<n>.*[MiB] β GPU memory free (MiB) (instant).
GPU: utilization.gpu.<n>.*[%] β GPU core utilization percent. (sampled)
GPU: utilization.memory.<n>.*[%] β GPU memory subsystem utilization percent. (sampled)
GPU: utilization.encoder.<n>.*[%] β Hardware encoder utilization. (sampled)
GPU: utilization.decoder.<n>.*[%] β Hardware decoder utilization. (sampled)
GPU: utilization.jpeg.<n>.*[%] β JPEG unit utilization. (sampled)
GPU: utilization.ofa.<n>.*[%] β OFA unit utilization (if present). (sampled)
GPU: encoder.stats.sessionCount.<n>.*[count] β Number of encoder sessions (cumulative or sampled, depending on collector).
GPU: encoder.stats.averageFps.<n>.*[fps] β Average encoder FPS (sampled / aggregated).
GPU: encoder.stats.averageLatency.<n>.*[ms] β Average encoder latency (ms) (sampled / aggregated).
ECC / error counters
GPU: ecc.errors.corrected.volatile..<n>.[count] β Corrected ECC errors seen in volatile window for subcomponent (cumulative in window).
GPU: ecc.errors.corrected.aggregate..<n>.[count] β Aggregate (long-running) corrected ECC errors for subcomponent (cumulative).
GPU: ecc.errors.uncorrected.volatile..<n>.[count] β Uncorrected ECC errors in the recent window β critical to monitor (cumulative in window).
GPU: ecc.errors.uncorrected.aggregate..<n>.[count] β Aggregate uncorrected errors since stats origin (cumulative).
Retired pages / reliability
GPU: retired_pages.sbe.<n>.*[count] β Pages retired due to single-bit errors (cumulative).
GPU: retired_pages.dbe.<n>.*[count] β Pages retired due to double-bit errors (cumulative; more severe).
GPU: retired_pages.pending.<n>.*[count] β Pages pending retirement (cumulative / state count).
Temperature / Power / Clocks / Protected memory
GPU: temperature.gpu.<n>.*[C] β GPU die temperature (Β°C). (sampled)
GPU: temperature.memory.<n>.*[C] β GPU memory temperature (Β°C). (sampled)
GPU: power.draw.<n>.*[W] β GPU power draw (watts) for the sampling period (sampled).
GPU: power.draw.average.<n>.*[W] β Average power draw (watts). (sampled/aggregate)
GPU: power.draw.instant.<n>.*[W] β Instantaneous power draw reading (watts). (instant)
GPU: clocks.current.graphics.<n>.*[MHz] β Current graphics clock frequency (MHz). (sampled)
GPU: clocks.current.sm.<n>.*[MHz] β Current SM (compute) clock frequency (MHz). (sampled)
GPU: clocks.current.memory.<n>.*[MHz] β Current memory clock (MHz). (sampled)
GPU: clocks.current.video.<n>.*[MHz] β Current video engine clock (MHz). (sampled)
GPU: protected_memory.total.<n>.*[MiB] β Total protected memory (MiB). (instant)
GPU: protected_memory.used.<n>.*[MiB] β Protected memory used (MiB). (instant)
GPU: protected_memory.free.<n>.*[MiB] β Protected memory free (MiB). (instant)
Network (NetworkInterStat_diff: β per-interface; <Interface> placeholder)
NetworkInterStat_diff:* fields are typically difference/delta values for the sample window (i.e., bytes/packets seen during the interval). Convert to rates by dividing by sampling duration if needed.
Per-interface fields
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_bytes.<Interface>.*[Bytes] β Bytes received on <Interface> during sample window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_packets.<Interface>.*[count] β Packets received during window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_errs.<Interface>.*[count] β Receive errors in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_drop.<Interface>.*[count] β Received packets dropped in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_fifo.<Interface>.*[count] β RX FIFO errors in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_frame.<Interface>.*[count] β RX frame alignment errors in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_compressed.<Interface>.*[count] β Compressed Rx packets in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:rx_multicast.<Interface>.*[count] β Multicast Rx packets in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_bytes.<Interface>.*[Bytes] β Bytes transmitted on <Interface> during window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_packets.<Interface>.*[count] β Packets transmitted during window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_errs.<Interface>.*[count] β Transmit errors in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_drop.<Interface>.*[count] β Transmit drops in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_fifo.<Interface>.*[count] β TX FIFO errors in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_colls.<Interface>.*[count] β TX collisions in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_carrier.<Interface>.*[count] β Carrier errors on TX in window (delta).
NetworkInterStat_diff:tx_compressed.<Interface>.*[count] β Compressed Tx packets in window (delta).
Network utilization aggregated
NetworkInterStat_diff:NetworkUtilization.<Interface>.*[%] β Interface bandwidth utilization percent for the sample window (sampled / derived).
Protocol & connection counts
NetworkProtocolCounts:TCP.*[count] β Number of TCP connections (instant or sampled depending on collector).
NetworkProtocolCounts:UDP.*[count] β Number of UDP endpoints/sockets (instant).
NetworkProtocolCounts:UNIX.*[count] β Number of UNIX domain sockets (instant).
NetworkProtocolCounts:RAW.*[count] β Raw sockets count (instant).
NetworkProtocolCounts:DCCP.*[count] β DCCP sockets count (instant, if applicable).
NetworkProtocolCounts:SCTP.*[count] β SCTP connections count (instant, if applicable).
NetworkProtocolCounts:local_to.*[count] β Local-to connection count (collector-defined semantics).
NetworkProtocolCounts:to_local.*[count] β To-local connection count (collector-defined semantics).
NetworkProtocolCounts:total_connections.*[count] β Total tracked connections (instant / sampled).
TCP retransmission metrics (delta)
NetworkTCPRetrans_diff:TcpRetransSegs.*[count] β TCP retransmitted segments in the sample window (delta).
NetworkTCPRetrans_diff:TcpExtTCPSynRetrans.*[count] β TCP SYN retransmissions in window (delta).
NetworkTCPRetrans_diff:TcpExtTCPLostRetransmit.*[count] β Retransmissions that were subsequently lost (delta).