CPU usage query

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Hi,
I am retying to create a dashboard for the CPU usage.
I created one like the following:
sum by(mode)(irate(node_cpu_seconds_total{instance=~“INT-API”, mode=“user”}[5m])) > 0

But, that will return a differant values of CPU, depending on the (mode), I will get (uses CPU usage, and System CPU usage) as different values.

How can I write this query to return the sum of all of these different values as one number?

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Hey There,

Ideally, you shouldn’t be calculating the CPU usage as the sum of all seconds spent on all modes.

I believe a better alert query for your scneario can be seen at awesome-prometheus-alerts.

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