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Host processes 🔗

Note

If you’re using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and want to collect metrics about processes running on a host, use the native OTel component Host metrics receiver.

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the host process monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

processes

no

list of strings

A list of process names to match.

processMatch

no

map of strings

A map with keys specifying the plugin_instance value to send for regex values that match process names. See the example configuration.

collectContextSwitch

no

bool

Collects metrics on the number of context switches made by the process. The default value is false.

procFSPath

no

string

(Deprecated) Set the agent configuration procPath instead of this monitor configuration option. This option is useful for overriding the path to the proc file system if the agent is running in a container.

Metrics 🔗

Metrics produced by this receiver count towards the custom metric ingestion limit. See System limits for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

  • Learn more about the available metric types in Observability Cloud.

  • Default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See more about metric categories.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics using the Collector.

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, try these tips:

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