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title: System utilization monitors
description: The System Utilization Monitors interface directly with the host operating system to gather statistics about CPU utilization and idle states, memory consumption, disk input and output rates, and queue depths, as well as network packet transmit and receive activity.
component: pingdirectory
version: 9.3
page_id: pingdirectory:pingdatametrics_server_administration_guide:pd_met_system_util_monitors
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingdirectory/9.3/pingdatametrics_server_administration_guide/pd_met_system_util_monitors.html
revdate: September 13, 2023
---

# System utilization monitors

The System Utilization Monitors interface directly with the host operating system to gather statistics about CPU utilization and idle states, memory consumption, disk input and output rates, and queue depths, as well as network packet transmit and receive activity.

Utilization metrics are gathered with externally invoked operating system commands using platform-specific arguments and version-specific output parsing, such as `iostat` and `netstat`.

Enabling the Host System monitor provider automatically gathers CPU and memory utilization, but only optionally gathers disk and network information. Disk and network interfaces are enumerated in the configuration by device names (such as `eth0` or `lo`), and by disk device names (such as `sd1, sdab, sda2, scsi0`).