Question
Spikes in system load on DO monitoring graphs
- Posted on July 20, 2019
- ApacheUbuntu 18.04
Asked by matt41f5576fd18eff1f5bf8ed
Ive noticed over the past 6 hours, a number of times, the DigitalOcean monitoring graphs are showing spikes of system load from 1 up to around 60, then a few minutes later dropping back to normal again. During these load peaks the memory drops to 0 and some CPU spike also.
Ive noticed this across a number of my droplets around the same times today. Is this something I should look into? I dont think the site went down , not long enough to trigger an alert anyway
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I’m also having this issue and was concerned something was going wrong but it is reassuring I’m not the only person having this problem with the monitor. Hopefully it is just the monitor and nothing else?
I’m the same…
https://ibb.co/Rz7qKTr
Assumed it was some sort of an attack. Would be nice if it was just an issue with the monitor.
I am also seeing this too. Hearing it happen to others makes me think it’s a monitoring/DO problem and not our servers. I’ve been monitoring via “htop” and my own logs, and have found nothing. Even during one the the actual spikes, I saw no change when SSH’d in. I imagine the the memory / cpu did actually hit 0, my programs would crash and I would see errors, but absolutely nothing.
I don’t really mind it, but it would be nice to get an official response as to what it is. If it’s a bug with monitoring, no problem, I’ll just keep that in mind.