The collectors were recently updated to schedule checks by repeatedly calling setTimeout(). this change improves the consistency of check execution. However as a side affect all checks are now being executed at exactly the second boundary. So the CPU is idle for most of the second and then overloaded for a small fraction.
The collectors were recently updated to schedule checks by repeatedly calling setTimeout(). this change improves the consistency of check execution. However as a side affect all checks are now being executed at exactly the second boundary. So the CPU is idle for most of the second and then overloaded for a small fraction.