# Understand Pressure Stall Information (PSI) Metrics — Understanding PSI Metrics

> Pressure Stall Information (PSI) metrics are provided for three resources: CPU, memory, and I/O.

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Pressure Stall Information (PSI) metrics are provided for three resources: CPU, memory, and I/O. They are categorized into two main types of pressure: some and full.

some: This value indicates that some tasks (one or more) are stalled on a resource. For example, if some tasks are waiting for I/O, this metric will increase. This can be an early indicator of resource contention. full: This value indicates that all non-idle tasks are stalled on a resource simultaneously. This signifies a more severe resource shortage, where the entire system is unable to make progress.

Each pressure type provides four metrics: avg10, avg60, avg300, and total. The avg values represent the percentage of wall-clock time that tasks were stalled over 10-second, 60-second, and 5-minute moving averages. The total value is a cumulative counter in microseconds showing the total time tasks have been stalled.

Let's take for example the following query from the Summary API: kubectl get --raw "/api/v1/nodes/$(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='')/proxy/stats/summary" | jq '.pods[].containers[] | select(.name=="") | {name, cpu: .cpu.psi, memory: .memory.psi, io: .io.psi}'. This returns the information in a json format as such.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
{
  "name": "&lt;CONTAINER_NAME&gt;",
  "cpu": {
    "full": {
      "total": 0,
      "avg10": 0,
      "avg60": 0,
      "avg300": 0
    },
    "some": {
      "total": 35232438,
      "avg10": 0.74,
      "avg60": 0.52,
      "avg300": 0.21,
    },
  },
  "memory": {
    "full": {
      "total": 539105,
      "avg10": 0,
      "avg60": 0,
      "avg300": 0
    },
    "some": {
      "total": 658164,
      "avg10": 0.01,
      "avg60": 0.01,
      "avg300": 0.00,
    },
    }
  },
  "io": {
    "full": {
      "total": 33190987,
      "avg10": 0.31,
      "avg60": 0.22,
      "avg300": 0.05,
    },
    "some": {
      "total": 40809937,
      "avg10": 0.52,
      "avg60": 0.45,
      "avg300": 0.12,
    }
  }
}
``` …

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