title: How to interpret CPU time vs CPU percentage
body: <p>When I check azure monitoring tool, CPU usages are shown in CPU time</p>
  
  <pre><code>min: 4.69s  
  max: 2008.08 s  
  avg : 207.63 s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am familiar with CPU% which makes sense as in application requiring cpu cycles.</p>
  
  <p>how does the above time correspond to percentage?
  What would be the max in seconds which corresponds to 70 or 100% cpu usage?</p>
  
  <p>note : cpu is 4 cores</p>
  
  <p>On a different instance, I noticed in a 60 second window</p>
  
  <pre><code>min: 0
  max : 133.83
  avg : 19.61
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Based on below answers (see Nachiket's explanation in comments as well)
  133.83 is a product of cpu time multiplied by cores ( in my case 4 cores)</p>
  
  <p>Cpu utilization in this case is 133.83/(60*4) = 54.1%</p>