Is there an OOTB way to monitor CPU Steal time/Wait Time Per Dispatch time in Azure on Windows VMs?

Question

From Ray Terrill @Rayterrill via Twitter

Is there an OOTB way to monitor cpu steal time in Azure? That is, time spent waiting for physical cpu resources to become available?

https://twitter.com/Rayterrill/status/722467614824407040

Thanks,

@AzureSupport

Answer 1

Greetings!

Thank you for posting here! We are happy to assist you.

These are the CPU monitoring metrics available on Windows VM:

For more information, please check Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Monitoring with Azure Diagnostics Extension and this

On a Linux VM once diagnostics is enabled, the following are the CPU metrics that can be collected:

• CPU DPC time
• CPU IO wait time
• CPU idle time
• CPU interrupt time
• CPU nice time
• CPU percentage
• CPU percentage guest OS
• CPU privileged time
• CPU user time

For more information on this, please check the link Azure Linux VM Infrastructure Monitoring and Diagnostics

You may want to know the New features for Azure Alerts and Autoscale

If you are looking forward for additional /(Steal Time) diagnostic metrics on Azure, kindly provide your feedback

Regards,
Ajay

Answer 2

So that's a no, right?

Answer 3

Hello Ray,

My apologies for the delay!

Yes, through my research I have found that it is not available as of today. As mentioned in my previous post we would really appreciate if you could provide your feedback.

Regards,

Ajay

Answer 4

Please vote here to be heard!

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/231545-diagnostics-and-monitoring/suggestions/34904626-monitoring-function-similar-to-xen-cpu-steal-time

Answer 5

This might be useful for you:

https://www.myotherpcisacloud.com/post/The-CPU-Steal-Time-Metric-in-UnixLinux-Virtual-Machines-and-a-Windows-Counterpart