Event-loop stalls occur without CPU spikes
warningperformanceUpdated Feb 24, 2026(via Exa)
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How to detect:
Event-loop can stall without dramatic CPU increases due to GC pauses, synchronous I/O waiting on disk/network, or contention in native code. Container CPU metrics can mask per-process behavior on multi-core machines.
Recommended action:
Track process-level CPU (user and system time separately), thread-level CPU where possible, and pair with event-loop utilization (ELU) metric to detect stalls that don't show as CPU spikes.