The video on monitoring mentions a variety of software metrics, including “compute” and “server load”. What is the difference between these two terms? They seem like the same thing to me. Or maybe “server load” goes beyond CPU? Would be helpful to clarify.
Hi @Wasawusu ,
First of all, welcome to the forum!
I believe you refer to this video
I would agree with you, compute and server load can be the same. Or not 
Imagine you have a physical server which runs several virtual machines. Being the CPU a shared resource by the VMs, each get a portion of the total CPU capacity. If only one VM requires compute capacity, it may get more compute from the physical server, since the other VMs do not utilize it at the moment. This way, server load and compute (of the single VM your task is running on) could mean 2 separate things. Same analogy can be made if you run containers.
I hope that makes sense?
@carloshvp Distinguishing between performance metrics at the container vs server level is certainly possible, yes. The video is talking at a high level so I shouldn’t interpret it too specifically. Thanks for responding.
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@Wasawusu , you are right it is not very clear and above is just my interpretation.