collector.process.md

process collector

The process collector exposes metrics about processes

Metric name prefix	process
Data source	Perflib
Counters	Process
Enabled by default?	No

Flags

--collector.process.whitelist

Regexp of processes to include. Process name must both match whitelist and not match blacklist to be included. Recommended to keep down number of returned metrics.

--collector.process.blacklist

Regexp of processes to exclude. Process name must both match whitelist and not match blacklist to be included. Recommended to keep down number of returned metrics.

Example

To match all firefox processes: --collector.process.whitelist="firefox.+". Note that multiple processes with the same name will be disambiguated by Windows by adding a number suffix, such as firefox#2. Your regexp must take these suffixes into consideration.

⚠️ The regexp is case-sensitive, so --collector.process.whitelist="FIREFOX.+" will NOT match a process named firefox .

To specify multiple names, use the pipe | character:

--collector.process.whitelist="firefox.+|FIREFOX.+|chrome.+"

This will match all processes named firefox, FIREFOX or chrome .

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
wmi_process_start_time	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_cpu_time_total	Not yet documented	counter	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_handle_count	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_io_bytes_total	Not yet documented	counter	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_io_operations_total	Not yet documented	counter	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_page_faults_total	Not yet documented	counter	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_page_file_bytes	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_pool_bytes	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_priority_base	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_private_bytes	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_thread_count	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_virtual_bytes	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id
wmi_process_working_set	Not yet documented	gauge	process, process_id, creating_process_id

Example metric

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Useful queries

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Alerting examples

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