diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/constants.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/constants.ts
index d60b604522..e736a6a397 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/constants.ts
@@ -116,3 +116,24 @@ export const SERVICE_RESOURCE = {
   /** The version string of the service API or implementation. */
   VERSION: 'service.version',
 };
+
+/** Attributes describing a Process service. */
+export const PROCESS_RESOURCE = {
+  /** A command which launced this proces.  */
+  COMMAND: 'process.command',
+
+  /** The full command with arguments as string.  */
+  COMMAND_LINE: 'process.command_line',
+
+  /** A name given to currently running porcess defaults to executable else set as process.title .  */
+  NAME: 'process.executable.name',
+
+  /** An owner of currently running process.  */
+  OWNER: 'process.owner',
+
+  /** The full path to the process executable.  */
+  PATH: 'process.executable.path',
+
+  /** Process identifier of currently running process.  */
+  PID: 'process.id',
+};
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/ProcessDetector.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/ProcessDetector.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba8ee52fd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/ProcessDetector.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import {
+  Detector,
+  Resource,
+  PROCESS_RESOURCE,
+  ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger,
+} from '../../../';
+import { ResourceAttributes } from '../../../types';
+
+/**
+ * ProcessDetector will be used to detect the resoureces related current process running
+ * and being instumented from the NodeJS Process module.
+ */
+class ProcessDetector implements Detector {
+  async detect(config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger): Promise<Resource> {
+    const processResource: ResourceAttributes = {
+      [PROCESS_RESOURCE.PID]: process.pid || '',
+      [PROCESS_RESOURCE.NAME]: process.title || '',
+      [PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND]: process.argv[1] || '',
+      [PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND_LINE]: process.argv.join(' ') || '',
+    };
+    return this._getResourceAttributes(processResource, config);
+  }
+  /**
+   * Validates process resource attribute map from process varaibls
+   *
+   * @param processResource The unsantized resource attributes from process as key/value pairs.
+   * @param config: Config
+   * @returns The sanitized resource attributes.
+   */
+  private _getResourceAttributes(
+    processResource: ResourceAttributes,
+    config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger
+  ) {
+    if (processResource[PROCESS_RESOURCE.PID] === '') {
+      config.logger.debug(
+        'ProcessDetector failed: unable to locate pid for currently running process'
+      );
+      return Resource.empty();
+    } else if (
+      processResource[PROCESS_RESOURCE.NAME] === '' ||
+      processResource[PROCESS_RESOURCE.PATH] === '' ||
+      processResource[PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND] === '' ||
+      processResource[PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND_LINE] === ''
+    ) {
+      config.logger.debug(
+        'ProcessDetector failed: Unable to find required process resources. '
+      );
+      return Resource.empty();
+    } else {
+      return new Resource({
+        ...processResource,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+export const processDetector = new ProcessDetector();
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/index.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/index.ts
index f2b4223be1..d88f7412d3 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/index.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/index.ts
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
  */
 
 export * from './EnvDetector';
+export * from './ProcessDetector';
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/ProcessDetector.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/ProcessDetector.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab235bba3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/ProcessDetector.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { processDetector, Resource } from '../../src';
+import {
+  assertProcessResource,
+  assertEmptyResource,
+} from '../util/resource-assertions';
+import { NoopLogger } from '@opentelemetry/core';
+
+describe('processDetector()', () => {
+  it('should return resource information from process', async () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'pid', {
+      value: 1234,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'title', {
+      value: 'otProcess',
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'argv', {
+      value: ['/tmp/node', '/home/ot/test.js', 'arg1', 'arg2'],
+    });
+    const resource: Resource = await processDetector.detect({
+      logger: new NoopLogger(),
+    });
+    assertProcessResource(resource, {
+      pid: 1234,
+      name: 'otProcess',
+      command: '/home/ot/test.js',
+      commandLine: '/tmp/node /home/ot/test.js arg1 arg2',
+    });
+  });
+  it('should return empty resources if title, command and commondLine is missing', async () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'pid', {
+      value: 1234,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'title', {
+      value: undefined,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'argv', {
+      value: [],
+    });
+    const resource: Resource = await processDetector.detect({
+      logger: new NoopLogger(),
+    });
+    assertEmptyResource(resource);
+  });
+  it('should return empty resources if pid is missing', async () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'pid', {
+      value: undefined,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'title', {
+      value: 'otProcess',
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process, 'argv', {
+      value: ['/tmp/node', '/home/ot/test.js', 'arg1', 'arg2'],
+    });
+    const resource: Resource = await processDetector.detect({
+      logger: new NoopLogger(),
+    });
+    assertEmptyResource(resource);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/util/resource-assertions.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/util/resource-assertions.ts
index 422415537c..3ebbb0286d 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/util/resource-assertions.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/util/resource-assertions.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   K8S_RESOURCE,
   TELEMETRY_SDK_RESOURCE,
   SERVICE_RESOURCE,
+  PROCESS_RESOURCE,
 } from '../../src/constants';
 
 /**
@@ -260,6 +261,45 @@ export const assertServiceResource = (
     );
 };
 
+/**
+ * Test utility method to validate an process resource
+ *
+ * @param resource the Resource to validate
+ * @param validations validations for the resource attributes
+ */
+export const assertProcessResource = (
+  resource: Resource,
+  validations: {
+    pid?: number;
+    name?: string;
+    command?: string;
+    commandLine?: string;
+  }
+) => {
+  assert.strictEqual(
+    resource.attributes[PROCESS_RESOURCE.PID],
+    validations.pid
+  );
+  if (validations.name) {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      resource.attributes[PROCESS_RESOURCE.NAME],
+      validations.name
+    );
+  }
+  if (validations.command) {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      resource.attributes[PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND],
+      validations.command
+    );
+  }
+  if (validations.commandLine) {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      resource.attributes[PROCESS_RESOURCE.COMMAND_LINE],
+      validations.commandLine
+    );
+  }
+};
+
 /**
  * Test utility method to validate an empty resource
  *
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/sdk.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/sdk.ts
index a411ab85df..0cc6f714d5 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/sdk.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/src/sdk.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   Resource,
   ResourceDetectionConfig,
   envDetector,
+  processDetector,
 } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import { BatchSpanProcessor, SpanProcessor } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
 import { NodeSDKConfiguration } from './types';
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ export class NodeSDK {
   /** Detect resource attributes */
   public async detectResources(config?: ResourceDetectionConfig) {
     const internalConfig: ResourceDetectionConfig = {
-      detectors: [awsEc2Detector, gcpDetector, envDetector],
+      detectors: [awsEc2Detector, gcpDetector, envDetector, processDetector],
       ...config,
     };