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### Enable CGroups v2
### Enable cgroup v2

This is an optional step, but necessary to be able to get container specific metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, network transfer and disk I/O (see section [Metric providers](#metric-providers) below for more information).
{{< callout context="note" icon="outline/info-circle" >}}
Since WSL version 2.5.1, cgroup v2 is the standard. The following is only relevant, if you use an older WSL version.
{{< /callout >}}

cgroup v2 is necessary to be able to get container specific metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, network transfer and disk I/O (see section [Metric providers](#metric-providers) below for more information).
If you don't need these metric providers, you can skip this.

Create the file `%USERPROFILE%\.wslconfig` (or edit it) and add the following content:

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