<p>In my Kubernetes installation, I can see cAdvisor reports a measurement called "container_cpu_load_average_10s" for each pod/container. I get values such as 232, 6512 and so on.</p>

<p>So, what is the unit of measure for CPU load here? To me "CPU Load" and "CPU Usage" are used interchangeably, so I can't understand why its not a value between [0-100] ?</p>

<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p>

<p>Here I put the related line from cAdvisor log:</p>

<pre><code>...
container_cpu_load_average_10s{container_name="",id="/system.slice/kubelet.service",image="",name="",namespace="",pod_name=""} 1598
...
</code></pre>

Michel Gokan Khan
<p>It is the number of tasks. A very nice explanation can be found here: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/667078/high-cpu-utilization-but-low-load-average">https://serverfault.com/questions/667078/high-cpu-utilization-but-low-load-average</a></p>
