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# Users


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Plugin: apps.plugin
Module: users

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## Overview

This integration monitors resource utilization on a user context.



This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.


### Default Behavior

#### Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

#### Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

#### Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

## Setup


### Prerequisites

No action required.

### Configuration

#### Options



There are no configuration options.



#### via File

There is no configuration file.

##### Examples
There are no configuration examples.



## Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.



## Metrics

Metrics grouped by *scope*.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.




### Per user

These metrics refer to the user.

Labels:

| Label      | Description     |
|:-----------|:----------------|
| user | The name of the user. |

Metrics:

| Metric | Description | Dimensions | Unit |
|:------|:------------|:----------|:----|
| user.cpu_utilization | User CPU utilization (100% = 1 core) | user, system | percentage |
| user.cpu_guest_utilization | User CPU guest utilization (100% = 1 core) | guest | percentage |
| user.cpu_context_switches | User CPU context switches | voluntary, involuntary | switches/s |
| user.estimated_mem_usage | User memory estimated usage (RSS with shared scaling). Requires kernel 4.14+. Enabled by default, disable with --pss 0. | mem | MiB |
| user.mem_usage | User memory RSS usage | rss | MiB |
| user.mem_private_usage | User memory usage without shared | mem | MiB |
| user.vmem_usage | User virtual memory size | vmem | MiB |
| user.mem_page_faults | User memory page faults | minor, major | pgfaults/s |
| user.swap_usage | User swap usage | swap | MiB |
| user.disk_physical_io | User disk physical IO | reads, writes | KiB/s |
| user.disk_logical_io | User disk logical IO | reads, writes | KiB/s |
| user.processes | User processes | processes | processes |
| user.threads | User threads | threads | threads |
| user.fds_open_limit | User open file descriptors limit | limit | percentage |
| user.fds_open | User open file descriptors | files, sockets, pipes, inotifies, event, timer, signal, eventpolls, other | fds |
| user.uptime | User uptime | uptime | seconds |
| user.uptime_summary | User uptime summary | min, avg, max | seconds |
