1.2.4. Platforms - Process Service

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Table 1.22. Overview
Description:	A generic process monitoring service to track native process information based on a pid file or process query
Singleton:	no
Plugin:	Platforms

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Table 1.23.
Name	Description	Required	Internal Name
Type	Choice of using a pid file or a PIQL query to find the process to monitor	yes	type
Pid File	Fully qualified path to the pid file for the process to monitor	no	pidFile
Piql	Process Information Query Language for process to monitor	no	piql
Full Process Tree	If true, the entire process tree will be monitored	yes	fullProcessTree

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

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Table 1.24. Metrics
Name	Type	Description	Internal Name
User Time	measurement	The aggregate amount of CPU user time spent by all processes	Process.cpu.user
User Time per Minute	measurement	The aggregate amount of CPU user time spent by all processes	Process.cpu.user
Kernel Time	measurement	The aggregate amount of CPU kernel time spent by all processes	Process.cpu.sys
Kernel Time per Minute	measurement	The aggregate amount of CPU kernel time spent by all processes	Process.cpu.sys
CPU Percentage	measurement	The percentage of CPU currently being used by all processes	Process.cpu.percent
Physical Memory	measurement	The aggregate amount of resident memory used by all processes	Process.memory.resident
Virtual Memory	measurement	The aggregate amount of virtual memory used by all processes	Process.memory.size
Open File Descriptors	measurement	The aggregate number of file descriptors open by all processes	Process.fileDescriptor.total

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

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