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# Why do slurmd Pod metrics show almost no CPU or memory usage?

This is expected on SUNK, not a broken metrics pipeline or a misconfigured Pod. Kubernetes Pod metrics come from cAdvisor in the `kubelet`, which measures the cgroup of the `slurmd` container. Slurm places job processes in cgroups that it manages itself, outside that hierarchy, so cAdvisor never attributes job CPU and memory to the `slurmd` container. Pod metrics report only the `slurmd` daemon's own overhead, which stays near zero no matter what the job is doing. Slurm still accounts for the usage and enforces the job's limits through its own cgroup configuration. See [Compute and login nodes](/products/sunk/discover_sunk/compute_and_login_nodes) and the `slurmConfig.cgroupConfig` defaults in [Slurm parameters](/products/sunk/reference/slurm-parameters).

To see what Slurm has allocated on a node or to a job, use the Slurm metrics the Syncer exports: `slurm_node_cpu_alloc`, `slurm_node_mem_alloc`, and `slurm_node_gpu_alloc` for per-node allocation, and `slurm_job_cpus_allocated` and `slurm_job_gpus_allocated` for per-job allocation. For the full list, see [Syncer metrics](/products/sunk/discover_sunk/syncer#metrics).

Allocation is not the same as consumption. To see what the hardware is actually doing, use these CoreWeave Managed Grafana dashboards:

* [Slurm Job Metrics](/observability/managed-grafana/sunk/slurm-job-metrics) for the GPU and CPU utilization of a single job.
* [Node details](/observability/managed-grafana/fleet/node-details) for CPU, GPU, and memory utilization on one compute node. Expand the **Resources** panel group.
* [Slurm Cluster](/observability/managed-grafana/sunk/slurm-cluster) for job resource usage across a namespace, broken down by user and partition.

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## Related topics

- [Diagnose unexplained memory pressure on a SUNK node](/products/sunk/optimize_workloads/memory-accounting.md)
