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Monitor Type: process (Source)

Accepts Endpoints: No

Multiple Instances Allowed: No

Overview

Configuration

To activate this monitor in the Smart Agent, add the following to your agent config:

monitors:  # All monitor config goes under this key
 - type: process
   ...  # Additional config

For a list of monitor options that are common to all monitors, see Common Configuration.

Config option Required Type Description
processes no list of strings A list of process command names to match and send metrics about. This is the name contained in /proc//comm and is limited to just 15 characters on Linux. Only one of processes or executables must match a process for it to have metrics generated about it. This is an overridable set that supports regexp and glob values.
executables no list of strings A list of process executable paths to match against and send metrics about. This is the binary executable that is symlinked in the /proc//exe file on Linux. This must match the full path. Only one of processes or executables must match a process for it to have metrics generated about it. This is an overridable set that supports regexp and glob values.

Metrics

These are the metrics available for this monitor. Metrics that are categorized as container/host (default) are in bold and italics in the list below.

  • process.cpu_time_seconds (cumulative)
    Total CPU usage of the process in seconds. If you analyze this metric as a rate/second, it tells you how many CPU cores the process is using.
  • process.rss_memory_bytes (gauge)
    Current RSS Memory usage of the process, in bytes

Non-default metrics (version 4.7.0+)

To emit metrics that are not default, you can add those metrics in the generic monitor-level extraMetrics config option. Metrics that are derived from specific configuration options that do not appear in the above list of metrics do not need to be added to extraMetrics.

To see a list of metrics that will be emitted you can run agent-status monitors after configuring this monitor in a running agent instance.