ncabatoff/process-exporter

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Prometheus exporter written in Go that reads /proc to expose metrics about selected processes on Linux systems. It groups processes by configurable name matching and reports resource usage such as CPU and memory per group.

Use cases

• monitor processes that can't be instrumented directly with Prometheus
• track CPU and memory usage of specific daemons via /proc
• export process metrics to Prometheus for alerting
• group subprocess resource usage under a parent process name
• monitor thread-level metrics for selected applications

When to choose

• you need Prometheus metrics for third-party or uninstrumentable applications
• you run Linux and want lightweight per-process monitoring
• you want to group and aggregate metrics across related processes

When to avoid

• you are not using Prometheus or a Prometheus-compatible scraper
• you need monitoring on non-Linux platforms without /proc
• you can instrument your application directly with a native client library

Facets

service · maturity active

monitoring monitoring go cli prometheus-exporter process-metrics procfs system-monitoring devops linux docker

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