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process_cpu_seconds_total increasing faster than 1/s

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I recently upgraded my services to Node 6 in order to start collecting process_cpu_seconds_total. I’m now graphing the results and seeing strange results. The stats seem to be claiming that Node is using 125k seconds per second, according to this Prometheus query:

irate(process_cpu_seconds_total{job="bt-actions"}[1m]) * 60

Screenshot of Grafana plot attached. Any idea what’s up? Am I querying this wrong or using the wrong units? Do you have reports from people successfully using the process_cpu_seconds_total stat?

Thanks, Jacob

screenshot from 2016-11-03 09-30-37

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Created 7 years ago
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SimenBcommented, Nov 8, 2016

This resolves our issue (using irate).

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siimoncommented, Nov 8, 2016

Closing this issue then 😃

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