Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
98 lines (75 loc) · 3.48 KB

collectd-processes.md

File metadata and controls

98 lines (75 loc) · 3.48 KB
Raw

collectd/processes

Monitor Type: collectd/processes (Source)

Accepts Endpoints: No

Multiple Instances Allowed: No

Overview

Gathers information about processes running on the host. See https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_processes and https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Processes for more information on the configuration options.

Example:

 procPath: /proc
 monitors:
  - type: collectd/processes
    processes:
      - mysql
      - myapp
    processMatch:
      docker: "docker.*"
    collectContextSwitch: true

The above config will send process metrics for processes named mysql and myapp, along with additional metrics on the number of context switches the process has made. Also, all processes that start with docker will have their process metrics aggregated together and sent with a plugin_instance value of docker.

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: collectd/processes
   ...  # 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 names to match
processMatch no map of strings A map with keys specifying the plugin_instance value to be sent for the values which are regexes that match process names. See example in description.
collectContextSwitch no bool Collect metrics on the number of context switches made by the process (default: false)
procFSPath no string (Deprecated) Please set the agent configuration procPath instead of this monitor configuration option. The path to the proc filesystem -- useful to override if the agent is running in a container.

Metrics

These are the metrics available for this monitor. This monitor emits all metrics by default; however, none are categorized as container/host -- they are all custom.

  • disk_octets.read (cumulative)
  • disk_octets.write (cumulative)
  • fork_rate (cumulative)
  • io_octets.rx (cumulative)
  • io_octets.tx (cumulative)
  • io_ops.read (cumulative)
  • io_ops.write (cumulative)
  • ps_code (gauge)
  • ps_count.processes (gauge)
  • ps_count.threads (gauge)
  • ps_cputime.syst (cumulative)
  • ps_cputime.user (cumulative)
  • ps_data (gauge)
  • ps_pagefaults.majflt (cumulative)
  • ps_pagefaults.minflt (cumulative)
  • ps_rss (gauge)
  • ps_stacksize (gauge)
  • ps_state.blocked (gauge)
  • ps_state.paging (gauge)
  • ps_state.running (gauge)
  • ps_state.sleeping (gauge)
  • ps_state.stopped (gauge)
  • ps_state.zombies (gauge)
  • ps_vm (gauge)
    The agent does not do any built-in filtering of metrics coming out of this monitor.