DigitalOcean monitoring triggered: CPU is running high

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I have been getting email alerts on one of my droplets:DigitalOcean monitoring triggered: CPU is running highCPU Utilization Percent is currently at 99.83%, above setting of 70.00% for the last 5mthen I getCPU Utilization Percent has returned to an acceptable levelabout twenty minutes later.These are at about 3 am.I have gotten these email alerts twice.Are they cause for concern? Is there something I can do about this?

njw · Answer

Hey there! Those alerts would mean that your droplet does have high CPU usage during the time they are sent. IF you have any scheduled jobs that run on your droplet those could be the cause of that increased load. I’d recommend you login when you get those alerts to verify what process on your droplet is using up the CPU. Using top and htop can give you a good idea of which process that is. If you don’t want to wake up to check that you could run a script to log top CPU processes to a file. Something like this may work: while true; do (echo "%CPU %MEM ARGS $(date)" && ps -e -o pcpu,pmem,args --sort=pcpu | cut -d" " -f1-5 | tail) >> ps.log; sleep 5; done This will log the top 10 processes using CPU to a log file called ps.log every 5 seconds. You could modify that to not write so often as well by changing the sleep value. Hope it helps!Nate

Bobby · Answer

Hello, In addition to what has already been mentioned, I’ve seen a similar problem here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-find-the-processes-that-are-consuming-the-most-server-resources?comment=92511 I created a small Bash script that might be helpful in your case. #!/bin/bash timeNow=$(date "+%F_%H:%M") filename="/root/processes_logs/log_${timeNow}.log" if [ ! -d "/root/processes_logs" ]; then mkdir /root/processes_logs fi touch ${filename} printf " ### Time of scan: $(date +%F_%H:%M) ###

" >> ${filename} ### printf "
 ################## RAM ################## 
" >> ${filename} printf "
 ### Current Memory Usage: ###

" >> ${filename} free -tm >> ${filename} printf "
 ### Top 10 processes by RAM usage: ###

" >> ${filename} ps aux | awk '{print $2, $4, $11}' | sort -k2rn | head -n 10 >> ${filename} printf "
 ### RAM usage history for the last hour ###:

" >> ${filename} sar -r -s $(date "+%H" -d "1 hour ago"):$(date "+%M"):00 -e $(date "+%H"):$(date "+%M"):00 >> ${filename} printf "
 ### Swap usage history for the last hour: ###

" >> ${filename} sar -S -s $(date "+%H" -d "1 hour ago"):$(date "+%M"):00 -e $(date "+%H"):$(date "+%M"):00 >> ${filename} ### printf "

################## CPU ################## 
" >> ${filename} printf "
 ### Current load: ###

" >> ${filename} uptime | cut -d' ' -f10-16 >> ${filename} printf "
 ### Sar history for last hour: ###

" >> ${filename} sar -s $(date "+%H" -d "1 hour ago"):$(date "+%M"):00 -e $(date "+%H"):$(date "+%M"):00 >> ${filename} ### printf "

################## Disk: ################## 
" >> ${filename} df -h >> ${filename} ### printf "

################## Apache ################## 
" >> ${filename} printf "
 ### IPs Connected to the server: ###

" >> ${filename} netstat -tn 2>/dev/null | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head >> ${filename} echo >> ${filename} ### printf "

################## MySQL ################## 
" >> ${filename} printf "
 ### MySQL uptime: ###

" >> ${filename} mysqladmin ver | grep Uptime >> ${filename} printf "
 ### MySQL connections: ###

" >> ${filename} mysql -e "show status like '%onn%';" >> ${filename} printf "
 ### MySQL processlist: ###

" >> ${filename} mysql -e "show full processlist;" >> ${filename} You could try setting this up as a corn job to run every minute and it would record the processes on your server so later on you could analyze the results and determine what could be causing the spike. Hope that this helps.Best,Bobby

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