Process input plugin allows you to check how healthy a process is. It does so by performing a service check at every certain interval of time specified by the user.
The Process metrics plugin creates metrics that are log-based (I.e. JSON payload). If you are looking for Prometheus-based metrics please see the Node Exporter Metrics input plugin.
Configuration Parameters
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
Getting Started
In order to start performing the checks, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
The following example will check the health of crond process.