The request asks what to use for monitoring CPU usage. Prometheus 2 is an open-source monitoring system with a time-series database and query language suited to collecting CPU metrics, while Datadog 3 and New Relic 6 offer hosted cloud monitoring of infrastructure and application performance. Netdata 7 can monitor all kinds of infrastructure, and OpenTelemetry 4 supplies instrumentation for sending telemetry to any backend.
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Datadogdatadoghq.comverified and signed
Cloud monitoring service that gives visibility into any stack and app at scale, including infrastructure metrics such as CPU usage 3.
official:SDK · ddtracelibrary · DogStatsD-CSharp-ClientCLI · puprepository · kubehoundskill · find-cpython-usage
for agents: monitoring · find-cpython-usage · profiling
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New Relic Documentationnewrelic.comverified and signed
Documentation for New Relic's monitoring and observability platform, which includes an MCP server for querying performance data 6.
official:MCP server · New Relic MCP Server+6 community tools built for it
for agents: newrelic · Relic · New
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Netdata Agentnetdata.cloudwebsite read, tools not yet checked
Monitoring agent that can be installed on systems to monitor infrastructure, usable for tracking CPU usage on a host 7.
+1 community tools built for it
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Sources
- 2Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series databaseprometheus.io · read 2026-10-29
- 3Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadogdatadoghq.com · read 2026-10-29
- 4OpenTelemetryopentelemetry.io · read 2026-10-29
- 6New Relic Documentationdocs.newrelic.com · read 2026-10-29
- 7Netdata Agent Installation | Netdata Agent | Learn Netdatalearn.netdata.cloud · read 2026-10-29
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
sentry-setup-ai-monitoring · sentry-setup-ai-monitoring verified and signed
Setup Sentry AI Agent Monitoring in any project. Use when asked to monitor LLM calls, track AI agents, track conversations, or instrument OpenAI/Anthropic/Vercel AI/LangChain/Google GenAI/Pydantic AI/Laravel AI. Detects installed AI SDKs and configures appropriate integrations.
monitoring · prometheus-client verified and signed
monitoring · DogStatsD-CSharp-Client verified and signed
Monitoring · OpenTelemetry verified and signed
redis-observability · redis-observability verified and signed
Redis observability guidance — which metrics to monitor (memory, connections, hit ratio, ops/sec, rejected connections), which built-in commands to reach for during incident triage (SLOWLOG, INFO, MEMORY DOCTOR, CLIENT LIST, FT.PROFILE), and when to use the Redis Insight GUI. Use when setting up mon
newrelic · newrelic verified and signed
New Relic observability intelligence for Claude Code. Investigate APM performance, analyze cloud costs, debug Kubernetes, write NRQL queries, and respond to alerts — all from your terminal using New Relic telemetry data.
· Netdata Agent Installation website read, tools not yet checked
Netdata is very flexible and can be used to monitor all kinds of infrastructure. Read more about possible Deployment guides to understand what better suites your needs.
monitoring · @pm2/js-api verified and signed
· Atoptool.nl website read, tools not yet checked
An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level.
· dtop website read, tools not yet checked
dtop: a blazing-fast, Rust-powered TUI for monitoring Docker containers across multiple hosts. Track CPU, memory, and network metrics in real time.
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