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procstat 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the procstat monitor type to collect metrics about processes.

This integration is available for Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the integration, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Example 🔗

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/procstat:
    type: telegraf/procstat
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/procstat]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the procstat monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

exe

No

string
Name of an executable to monitor. For example,

exe: "signalfx-agent*".

pattern

No

string

Regular expression pattern to match against.

user

No

string

Username to match against.

pidFile

No

string
Path to pid file to monitor. For example,

pidFile: "/var/run/signalfx-agent.pid".

processName

No

string

Use to override the process name dimension.

prefix

No

string

Prefix to add to each dimension.

pidTag

No

bool
Whether to add PID as a dimension or as part of the metric name.

The default value is false.

cmdLineTag

No

bool
When true, it adds the full cmdline as a dimension. The

default value is false.

cGroup

No

string
The name of the cgroup to monitor. This cgroup name is appended

to the configured sysPath. See the agent config schema for more information about the sysPath agent configuration.

WinService

No

string

The name of a Windows service to report procstat information on.

On Linux hosts, this monitor relies on the /proc file system. If the underlying host’s /proc file system is mounted somewhere other than /proc, specify the path using the top-level configuration procPath.

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

  • To learn more about the available in Splunk Observability Cloud see Metric types

  • In host-based subscription plans, default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Splunk Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See Metric categories for more information.

  • In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

  • Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .

  • Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.

This page was last updated on Sep 18, 2024.