Monitoring Processes with Atatus

Introduction

Atatus Processes provides real-time visibility into all processes running across your infrastructure. With Atatus Processes, you can:

• View and search all running processes.
• Monitor CPU, memory, and I/O usage.
  
• Filter by host, container, service, or tags.
• Track apps with second-level metrics.
• Add process context to dashboards and alerts.

Processes continuously collects process-level metrics and metadata from your hosts and containers, giving you deep insight into the resource consumption and performance of each running process.

Setup & Configuration

The process plugin is included with the Atatus Infra agent by default, please follow the below section to enable.

1. Copy the system example configuration file.

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   cd /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/system.d/
   sudo cp system.yml.template system.yml
   

2. Update the file /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/system.d/system.yml with the following configurations:

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   process:
       enabled: true
   

3. After updating the configuration, restart the Atatus Agent:

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   sudo service atatus-infra-agent restart
   

Processes in Dashboards

You can visualize process metrics in dashboards using the Timeseries widget.

Steps:

1. Select Processes as the data source.
2. Use the search bar to filter by process name or keyword.
3. Choose a process metric to display (e.g., Total CPU %, RSS memory).
4. Apply tag-based filters in the filter by field for more precise results.
5. Save the widget to your dashboard.