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Process Monitoring Metrics Supported by ECSs with the Agent Installed

Description

Process monitoring provides monitoring of active processes on ECSs and it requires the Agent to be installed on the ECSs to be monitored. By default, Cloud Eye collects CPU usage, memory usage, and number of opened files of active processes.

This section describes process monitoring metrics reported to Cloud Eye.

Namespace

AGT.ECS

Process Metrics

After the agent is installed, you can view the default process metrics listed in the following table, regardless of ECS types and OSs.

**Table 1** Process metrics
Metric	Parameter	Description	Value Range	Monitored Object & Dimension	Monitoring Period (Raw Data)
proc_pHashId_cpu	CPU Usage	CPU consumed by a process. pHashId (process name and process ID) is the value of md5. Unit: percent Linux: Check metric value changes in file /proc/pid/stat.	0-100%	ECS	1 minute
proc_pHashId_mem	Memory Usage	Memory consumed by a process. pHashId (process name and process ID) is the value of md5. Unit: percent Linux: RSSPAGESIZE/MemTotal Obtain the RSS* value by checking the second column of file /proc/pid/statm. Obtain the PAGESIZE value by running the getconf PAGESIZE command. Obtain the MemTotal value by checking file /proc/meminfo.	0-100%	ECS	1 minute
proc_pHashId_file	Open Files	Number of files opened by a process. pHashId (process name and process ID) is the value of md5. Linux: Run the ls -l /proc/pid/fd command to view the number of opened files.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_running_count	(Agent) Running Processes	Number of processes that are running Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_idle_count	(Agent) Idle Processes	Number of processes that are idle Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_zombie_count	(Agent) Zombie Processes	Number of zombie processes Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_blocked_count	(Agent) Blocked Processes	Number of processes that are blocked Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_sleeping_count	(Agent) Sleeping Processes	Number of processes that are sleeping Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_total_count	(Agent) Total Processes	Total number of processes on the monitored object Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS	1 minute
proc_specified_count	(Agent) Specified Processes	Number of specified processes Linux: You can obtain the state of each process by checking the Status value in the /proc/pid/status file, and then collect the total number of processes in each state.	≥0	ECS ECS - Process	1 minute