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CPU utilization is the share of time a server's processor cores spend running work instead of idling, measured as a percentage over a sampling interval.
Disk I/O is the reading and writing of data between a server and its storage, measured in IOPS, throughput and latency, and often the slowest server…
Load average is a Unix and Linux metric showing the average number of tasks running or waiting over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes on…
Memory usage is the amount of physical RAM a server, process or container consumes, split into application memory, kernel buffers, page cache and free space.
A process limit caps how many processes or threads a user, service or hosting account may run at once, protecting server resources from runaway workloads.
Swap is disk space a server uses as overflow for RAM, letting the kernel move idle memory pages out so active processes keep running under memory…