How to interpret ACI's CPU usage?

Question

I created an Azure Container Instance(ACi) that has 4 cores and 8GB RAM.

While running an app in ACI, I can see that CPU usage (CPU usage on all cores in milicores) is between 170 - 210.

How can I interpret it? Do these values mean all 4 cores are used? or?

Answer 1

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In Azure Container Instance , the CPU resources are specified in terms of virtual cores.

One millicore equals one-thousandth (1/1000) of a CPU core.

Based on that

170 millicores = 0.17 cores used.

210 millicores = 0.21 cores used.

If the app is using between 170 and 210 millicores, this means it is using only a small portion of the available CPU capacity i.e., about 4.25% to 5.25% of the total capacity across all four cores.

So your application isn't fully utilizing the available CPU resources. It's normal behavior, depending on the workload.

Hope this helps you.

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