Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried? | Scout APM BlogA big thanks to Eric Lindvall of Papertrail for adding steal time to Scout's CPU Usage Plugin and helping out on this blog post! Netflix tracks CPU Steal Time closely. In fact, if steal time exceeds their chosen threshold, they shut down the virtual machine and restart on a different physical server. If you deploy to a virtualized environment (for example, Amazon EC2), steal time is a metric you'l
