1.7.4. Platforms - Process Service

Overview

Table 1.77. Overview

Description:A generic process monitoring service to track native process information based on a pid file or process query
Singleton: no
Plugin:Platforms

Child Resource Types

none

Connection Properties

Table 1.78. 

NameDescriptionRequiredInternal Name
TypeChoice of using a pid file or a PIQL query to find the process to monitor yes type
Pid FileFully qualified path to the pid file for the process to monitor no pidFile
PiqlProcess Information Query Language for process to monitor no piql
Full Process TreeIf true, the entire process tree will be monitored yes fullProcessTree

Note

You must use the internal name to reference Configuration Properties in Dynamic Group Definition expressions.

Metrics

Table 1.79. Metrics

NameTypeDescriptionInternal Name
User TimemeasurementThe aggregate amount of CPU user time spent by all processesProcess.cpu.user
User Time per MinutemeasurementThe aggregate amount of CPU user time spent by all processesProcess.cpu.user
Kernel TimemeasurementThe aggregate amount of CPU kernel time spent by all processesProcess.cpu.sys
Kernel Time per MinutemeasurementThe aggregate amount of CPU kernel time spent by all processesProcess.cpu.sys
CPU PercentagemeasurementThe percentage of CPU currently being used by all processesProcess.cpu.percent
Physical MemorymeasurementThe aggregate amount of resident memory used by all processesProcess.memory.resident
Virtual MemorymeasurementThe aggregate amount of virtual memory used by all processesProcess.memory.size
Open File DescriptorsmeasurementThe aggregate number of file descriptors open by all processesProcess.fileDescriptor.total

Note

You must use the internal name to reference Traits in Dynamic Group Definition expressions.

Configuration Properties

none

Operations

none

Package Types

none