Engineering Capacity Metrics Operational

Infrastructure Utilization

Infrastructure Utilization: Percentage of provisioned capacity being used.

Formula

Utilization = Actual usage / Provisioned capacity × 100

Computable definition

The canonical formula in the GASP formula grammar. The MCP server compiles it to SQL over the datasets listed below.

avg(field.utilization)

Unit: percent (the formula yields an unscaled ratio)

Notes: Measured per resource (CPU, memory, storage, network). Actual usage divided by provisioned capacity.

Data requirements

Grain: Per service per interval, aggregate daily · Frequency: Daily · Aggregation: aggregate (day) · Staged: no · Main source: Cloud Provider.

Field	Dataset	Type
`period_start`	service_metrics	date
`utilization`	service_metrics	decimal

Example SQL (Postgres)

SELECT (SELECT AVG(utilization) FROM service_metrics WHERE period_start >= :period_start AND period_start <= :period_end) AS infrastructure_utilization

From an agent: with the GASP MCP server, call lookup_metric({ "name": "Infrastructure Utilization" }) or generate_query({ "metric": "Infrastructure Utilization", "adapter": "<your adapter JSON>" }).

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