Process-Exporter

Linux

Windows

Under Linux, the Process-Exporter extends the data of the Node-Exporter with process-specific data. It can be used to monitor individual processes or process groups for utilization and other metrics. This makes it possible, for example, to limit load peaks to processes. this also makes it possible, for example, to limit load peaks on processes.

Statistics are grouped and output for a process or process group, e.g.:

CPU load
Hard disk access
RAM

Configuration

The configuration is located in the file vimon/config/process_exporter/process_exporter.yml.

Groups are formed here via process_names.
Within these groups, exe and/or cmdline can then be specified.

All processes that meet all the conditions specified in this group are then output together as a group.

exe

Defines the call command with which the process was started.
Examples:
- java
- mysqld
- clammd
cmdline

Defines a pattern that is searched for in the call command of a process.

This is helpful if the process command is not unique (e.g. for Java processes).
Examples:
- Elasticsearch: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch
- INUBIT: inubit.*org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

Example configuration

process_names:
  - name: "inubit"
    exe:
    - java
    cmdline:
    - inubit.*org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
  - name: "elasticsearch"
    exe:
    - java
    cmdline:
    - org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch
  - name: "karaf"
    exe:
    - java
    cmdline:
    - org.apache.karaf.wrapper.internal.service.Main