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Linux load average explained: what the 1, 5 and 15 minute numbers mean, why you divide by core count, and which values are actually bad on your servers.
Linux server monitoring in 2026: which CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics matter, the commands that read them, and the thresholds worth alerting on.
OpenTelemetry host metrics explained: what the hostmetrics receiver scrapes, the metric names it emits, and a collector config that ships them over OTLP.
Server monitoring alert thresholds that page a human only when it matters: why CPU at 80% is noise, and disk at 85%, memory at 10% and agent silence are not.
High iowait on Linux means CPUs sat idle waiting on disk. Here is how to read top, iostat, iotop and pidstat to find the device and process blocking you.