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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).