# ncabatoff/process-exporter

Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes

Repository: https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/process-exporter
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: prometheus-exporter, process-metrics, go
Last push: 2025-04-21T13:30:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 37/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 17, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3692, "days_push": 499, "days_rel": 499, "gap_med": 85, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2144, forks 315 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.593545+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring
- domain: monitoring
- platform: go, cli
- tags: prometheus-exporter, process-metrics, procfs, system-monitoring, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- ncabatoff/process-exporter (main) score 37

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.593545+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:51:14.122636+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.593545+00:00, sha 0e2dbe867732)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.