title: Java Spring Boot Actuator Metrics system load average returning -1
body: <p>I am a new user to Spring Boot Actuator Metrics, I need to determine the CPU utilization of the system. The /metrics url does give me rest of the details, however the systemload.average returns -1 (if load average is not available -1 is returned). Could you let me know where I went wrong and how do I correct it?
  I am using maven and Eclipse IDE (Mars). I am accessing metric details on localhost itself. the url is http://localhost:8080/details/metrics (details used for context path)</p>
  <p>Here is my code:
  Application.java file
  package spring.boot.admin.actuator;</p>
  <pre><code>import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
  import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
  import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
  import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
  
  @EnableAutoConfiguration
  @ComponentScan
  @PropertySource(value = &quot;classpath:application.properties&quot;)
  public class Application{
  
  public static void main(final String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
  }
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>POM File
  
  4.0.0</p>
  <pre><code>  &lt;groupId&gt;spring.boot.admin&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;actuator&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
    &lt;name&gt;actuator&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;url&gt;http://maven.apache.org&lt;/url&gt;
  
    &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;parent&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.3.7.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      
      &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-actuator&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-security&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
      
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  
  **application.properties file**
  
  management.port=8080
  management.context-path=/details
  management.security.enabled=true
  
  endpoints.health.enabled=false
  
  security.basic.enabled=true
  security.user.name=admin
  security.user.password=admin
  
  endpoints.health.id=health
  endpoints.health.sensitive=true
  endpoints.health.enabled=true
  
  endpoints.metrics.id=metrics
  endpoints.metrics.sensitive=true
  endpoints.metrics.enabled=true
  
  endpoints.server.id=server
  endpoints.server.sensitive=false
  endpoints.server.enabled=true
  
  endpoints.info.id=info
  endpoints.info.sensitive=false
  endpoints.info.enabled=true
  info.app.name=Spring Actuator Example
  info.app.description=Spring Actuator Working Examples
  info.app.version=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
  management.security.enabled=true
  </code></pre>
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