Resource Utilization

Kind: metric

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:resource-utilization

Severity: contextual

Scope: CPU, memory, IO, network

Canonical: Ontology

A measure of how much of the provisioned CPU, memory, I/O and network capacity is in use.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Bottleneck Analysis and before Rate Limiting.

Requires

• Monitoring

Reinforces

• Performance Engineering

Enables

• Capacity Planning

Conflicts with

• Resource Waste/Saturation

In tension with

• Over-Provisioning
• Bulkhead Pattern
• Bulkhead Pattern / Resource Utilization

Tensions

• Resource Utilization / Over-Provisioning

Violated by

• Resource Waste/Saturation

Refactored by

• Profiling
• Horizontal Scaling
• Externalize Configuration

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Reinforced by

• Space Complexity

Linked from

• Error Handling / Resilience
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Vocabulary
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions