vm.loadavg

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: vm.loadavg

Overview

System Load Average

The plugin calls sysctl function to collect necessary data.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

Config options

Option	Description	Default	Required
vm.loadavg	Enable or disable load average metric.	yes	no

via File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:freebsd] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
Alert name load_cpu_number	On metricsystem.load	Descriptionnumber of active CPU cores in the system
Alert name load_average_15	On metricsystem.load	Descriptionsystem fifteen-minute load average
Alert name load_average_5	On metricsystem.load	Descriptionsystem five-minute load average
Alert name load_average_1	On metricsystem.load	Descriptionsystem one-minute load average

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per vm.loadavg instance

Monitoring for number of threads running or waiting.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Unit
system.load	System Load Average	load1, load5, load15	load