Zabbix 4.0 LTS understanding percpu,avg1

[drenriza]

I dont really get Zabbix's interpretation of the cpu.load value.
Standard: system.cpu.load[percpu,avg1].avg(5m)}>5
"Run system.cpu.load in percentage every minut, if value is larger than 5 over 5 minutes trigger"?

The Zabbix Agent documentation is not helpful at all, since it simply states 'percpu (total load divided by online CPU count)'
What on earth does this mean? On A Linux distro, if you have 3 cores, and use top which display load average, than the first column display per minut, and 1,00 would mean you utilize 33%
3 means 100% in this scenario.

But what is >5 in Zabbix? Why 5? Does the zabbix key use the Linux distro way of doing things?

Edit: In the agent documentation there is a link to a Wikipedia Linux / Unix distro page using top, so i guess that answers that question how Zabbix treat this value.
But why 5?

Thanks in advance
Best regards!

[Atsushi]

The number 5 used in the template threshold is just an example. Make adjustments to notify you when there may be an impact on service delivery in your environment.