Axibase | EC2 monitoring: the case of stolen CPUWhat do you do when the top command displays that only 40% of the CPU is busy, but the CloudWatch says that the server is maxed out at 100%? The answer is simple, CloudWatch is correct and the top is not. This raises a question on how to measure the performance of virtual machines if you can no longer take operating system statistics at face value. How do you define thresholds, raise alerts, and c
