CPU Credit Balance Getting Zero

Question

We have the Jenkins Server on EC2 instance, the CPU Credit Balance is automatically going to zero without any load on the instance.
What are the alternatives for this issue so that CPU Credit Balance stays above zero?

Instance Size is 8gb,
Instance Type is t3.medium

![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IM2YuGt57PSUepODKRSWdncA)

Answer

[here are some key concepts about burstable instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-credits-baseline-concepts.html)

other than that, check if you are seeing the right metric aggregation is set to average or maximum, see the screenshot below

![see this](/media/postImages/original/IMcWdnNfy7Rr69LF0OnOu7tw)

[here is some documentation about how to monitor the credit usage](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-performance-instances-monitoring-cpu-credits.html)

finally, if you want to continue providing CPU credit even if you are running out of credits you can enable [Unlimited mode](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-performance-instances-unlimited-mode.html)

CPU Credit Balance Getting Zero

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