How to measure cpu usage with a single value or metric to be used with monitoring and alerting tools?

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Issue

  • How to measure cpu usage or utilization with a single value or metric to be used with monitoring and alerting tools?
  • Which single value represents CPU usage as a percentage?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7

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