# Feature Request - Process Information for Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-process-information-for-windows/114846>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-process-information-for-windows/114846 "2018-01-10T11:26:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![londonx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/da6949/32.png) [@londonx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/londonx)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-process-information-for-windows/114846/1 "2018-01-10T11:26:19Z")

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Packetbeat has a nifty process monitor that can track flows even down to between processes running on the same server:

packetbeat.procs:  
enabled: true  
monitored:  
- process: mysqld  
cmdline\_grep: mysqld

Unfortunately it is Linux only. Now I do know that later versions of Windows have a handy -o switch for netstat that shows the process number assigned to the port. Would it be feasible to capture this to mimic the Linux process flow functionality?

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**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-process-information-for-windows/114846/2 "2018-01-10T12:17:08Z")

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Turns out we already have this feature request, sitting in our backlog for 2 years now.

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/541>

I think its a feature worth having and not so complicated. Tempted to pick it up now

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-process-information-for-windows/114846/3 "2018-02-07T12:17:09Z")

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