High CPU Usage in Firepower
Friday June 22, 2018
The Symptoms
I use Firepower Management Center quite a bit. Recently, I started getting health monitoring alerts. It looked something like this:
Health Monitor Alert from 10.10.10.10Severity: Critical Module: CPU Usage
Description: Using CPU05 95.34%
These alerts were spamming me every 5 minutes for a few hours.
One of our ASA’s running Firepower Services was having a bad time.