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USE Method

The utilization, saturation, and errors method should be used early in a performance investigation to identify systemic bottlenecks. It can be summarized as:

  1. For every resource, check utilization, saturation, and errors.

Steps

  1. The first step is to list resources involved (CPUs, RAM, NICs, storage devices, accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, etc.), controllers (storage, network), interconnects)
  2. Once you have a list of resources, consider the metric types available for each az aks nodepool update –resource-group rc-02us1-kubernetes-01-rg –cluster-name rc-02us1-kubernetes-01-cluster –name nplinux02 –labels k8s.aprimo.com/workloadType=scoring –no-wait