How to find out the % CPU usage for Node.js process?

Question

Is there a way to find out the cpu usage in % for a node.js process via code. So that when the node.js application is running on the server and detects the CPU exceeds certain %

Answer 1

Use node process.cpuUsage function (introduced in node v6.1.0). It shows time that cpu spent on your node process. Example taken from docs:

const previousUsage = process.cpuUsage();
// { user: 38579, system: 6986 }

// spin the CPU for 500 milliseconds
const startDate = Date.now();
while (Date.now() - startDate < 500);

// At this moment you can expect result 100%
// Time is *1000 because cpuUsage is in us (microseconds)
const usage = process.cpuUsage(previousUsage);
const result = 100 * (usage.user + usage.system) / ((Date.now() - startDate) * 1000) 
console.log(result);

// set 2 sec "non-busy" timeout
setTimeout(function() {
    console.log(process.cpuUsage(previousUsage);
    // { user: 514883, system: 11226 }    ~ 0,5 sec
    // here you can expect result about 20% (0.5s busy of 2.5s total runtime, relative to previousUsage that is first value taken about 2.5s ago)
}, 2000);