Key Process Metrics
Agent gathers metrics for processes of discovered services. Currently only automatically discovered services are monitored.
If the services is running multiple processes (for example PostgreSQL, which have one process per client), the metrics will summarize all processes.
Agent gathers the following metrics:
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| process_context_switch | Number of context switch caused by the processes |
| process_cpu_system | CPU used in system call by the processes in percent |
| process_cpu_user | CPU used in user-mode by the processes in percent |
| process_io_read_bytes | Disk read throughput for the processes in bytes |
| process_io_write_bytes | Disk write throughput for the processes in bytes |
| process_major_fault | Number of major fault (memory access requiring IO) caused by the processes |
| process_mem_bytes | Memory used by the processes in bytes |
| process_num_procs | Number of process in the group |
| process_num_threads | Number of threads in the group |
| process_open_filedesc | Number of files opened the processes |
| process_worst_fd_ratio | Worse FD ratio (open files / limit) amount the processes |
Note: monitoring the processes has a small impact on agent's CPU usage. If you don't need those metrics
and want to save some CPU cycle, you can disable gathering of processes metrics by adding the following
to /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-local.conf:
agent:
process_exporter:
enable: false