By Bobby
Recently, I got asked about a random CPU spike on a Flask Droplet, which was configured with a single CPU.
This unexpected behavior prompted me to look deeper into potential causes.
Upon investigating, I discovered that the unattended-upgrades feature, which Ubuntu uses to automatically apply security updates, was the culprit behind these CPU spikes.
Here is what I did to further investigate the random CPU spikes.
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