The Stress badge is an early warning view of upcoming provisioning needs. An object that is experiencing stress is experiencing high usage of a resource over a period of time.
The stress score accumulates when workload exceeds the stress line. The stress score is the percentage of the stress zone area with stress in the selected time sample. By default, the stress zone is 70%+ and is observed in any 60-minute peak period.
The following screenshot shows an example breakdown of the Stress badge:
The Stress score helps you to identify clusters, hosts, and virtual machines that do not have enough resources allocated. This score ...