Calculating Pod CPU usage on EKS Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus

[Darshan Deshmukh]

Hi All,

I am calculating the percentage CPU usage with below expression -

sum(rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{container_name="abc"}[5m])) by (container_name) /

sum(container_spec_cpu_quota{container_name="abc"}/container_spec_cpu_period{container_name="abc"}) by (container_name) *100

My goal is to get the actual CPU values so that I can do optimum allocation in resource requests.

Can someone provide me the Prometheus expression to calculate the CPU usage for currently running pod. (The goal is to monitor it for month to conclude on optimum allocation required to save the cost) 

Darshan Deshmukh
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