An operating system process.
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
process.command |
string | The command used to launch the process (i.e. the command name). On Linux based systems, can be set to the zeroth string in proc/[pid]/cmdline. On Windows, can be set to the first parameter extracted from GetCommandLineW. |
cmd/otelcol |
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process.command_args |
string[] | All the command arguments (including the command/executable itself) as received by the process. On Linux-based systems (and some other Unixoid systems supporting procfs), can be set according to the list of null-delimited strings extracted from proc/[pid]/cmdline. For libc-based executables, this would be the full argv vector passed to main. |
cmd/otecol; --config=config.yaml |
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process.command_line |
string | The full command used to launch the process as a single string representing the full command. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetCommandLineW. Do not set this if you have to assemble it just for monitoring; use process.command_args instead. |
C:\cmd\otecol --config="my directory\config.yaml" |
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process.context_switch_type |
string | Specifies whether the context switches for this data point were voluntary or involuntary. | voluntary; involuntary |
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process.creation.time |
string | The date and time the process was created, in ISO 8601 format. | 2023-11-21T09:25:34.853Z |
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process.executable.name |
string | The name of the process executable. On Linux based systems, can be set to the Name in proc/[pid]/status. On Windows, can be set to the base name of GetProcessImageFileNameW. |
otelcol |
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process.executable.path |
string | The full path to the process executable. On Linux based systems, can be set to the target of proc/[pid]/exe. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetProcessImageFileNameW. |
/usr/bin/cmd/otelcol |
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process.exit.code |
int | The exit code of the process. | 127 |
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process.exit.time |
string | The date and time the process exited, in ISO 8601 format. | 2023-11-21T09:26:12.315Z |
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process.group_leader.pid |
int | The PID of the process's group leader. This is also the process group ID (PGID) of the process. | 23 |
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process.interactive |
boolean | Whether the process is connected to an interactive shell. | |
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process.owner |
string | The username of the user that owns the process. | root |
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process.paging.fault_type |
string | The type of page fault for this data point. Type major is for major/hard page faults, and minor is for minor/soft page faults. |
major; minor |
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process.parent_pid |
int | Parent Process identifier (PPID). | 111 |
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process.pid |
int | Process identifier (PID). | 1234 |
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process.real_user.id |
int | The real user ID (RUID) of the process. | 1000 |
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process.real_user.name |
string | The username of the real user of the process. | operator |
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process.runtime.description |
string | An additional description about the runtime of the process, for example a specific vendor customization of the runtime environment. | Eclipse OpenJ9 Eclipse OpenJ9 VM openj9-0.21.0 |
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process.runtime.name |
string | The name of the runtime of this process. For compiled native binaries, this SHOULD be the name of the compiler. | OpenJDK Runtime Environment |
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process.runtime.version |
string | The version of the runtime of this process, as returned by the runtime without modification. | 14.0.2 |
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process.saved_user.id |
int | The saved user ID (SUID) of the process. | 1002 |
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process.saved_user.name |
string | The username of the saved user. | operator |
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process.session_leader.pid |
int | The PID of the process's session leader. This is also the session ID (SID) of the process. | 14 |
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process.user.id |
int | The effective user ID (EUID) of the process. | 1001 |
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process.user.name |
string | The username of the effective user of the process. | root |
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process.vpid |
int | Virtual process identifier. [1] | 12 |
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[1]: The process ID within a PID namespace. This is not necessarily unique across all processes on the host but it is unique within the process namespace that the process exists within.
process.context_switch_type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
| Value | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|
voluntary |
none | |
involuntary |
none | |
process.paging.fault_type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
| Value | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|
major |
none | |
minor |
none | |
Attributes for process CPU
| Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Stability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
process.cpu.state |
string | The CPU state of the process. | system; user; wait |
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process.cpu.state has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
| Value | Description | Stability |
|---|---|---|
system |
none | |
user |
none | |
wait |
none | |