# How to Monitor the process using metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-module, metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525 "2022-11-09T09:56:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![jisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jisha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jisha)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/1 "2022-11-09T09:56:30Z")

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How to Monitor the process using metricbeat in windows. Should we include the process details in the configuration yml of metricbeat?

currently without mentioning any process details in config file its only showing process names with . exe

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**Author:** ![tatdat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tatdat/32/113160_2.png) [@tatdat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tatdat)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/2 "2022-11-09T10:19:08Z")

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Hi @jisha , what you are expecting on the metric of process detail?.  
In the system module document, have a lot of information: image, path, process args, CPU, memory usage

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**Author:** ![jisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jisha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jisha)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/3 "2022-11-09T10:25:24Z")

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Running process names ex. W3SVC etc

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**Author:** ![tatdat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tatdat/32/113160_2.png) [@tatdat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tatdat)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/4 "2022-11-09T10:28:20Z")

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The process name included in metrics event

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**Author:** ![jisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jisha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jisha)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/5 "2022-11-10T05:55:34Z")

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The process name included in metrics event under metricbeat configuration?

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**Author:** ![tatdat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tatdat/32/113160_2.png) [@tatdat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tatdat)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/6 "2022-11-10T06:32:55Z")

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When you enable the module system in the metricbeat agent, a list of metrics set will be enabled by default:

```auto
  metricsets:
    - cpu # CPU usage
    - load # CPU load averages
    - memory # Memory usage
    - network # Network IO
    - process # Per process metrics
    - process_summary # Process summary
    - uptime # System Uptime
    - socket_summary # Socket summary
    #- core # Per CPU core usage
    #- diskio # Disk IO
    #- filesystem # File system usage for each mountpoint
    #- fsstat # File system summary metrics
    #- raid # Raid
    #- socket # Sockets and connection info (linux only)
    #- service # systemd service information

```

You can see, the metric process is enabled, it contains all information about process like process name, process path, process args, command line, working directory ...  
You can check the document : [System process metricset | Metricbeat Reference [8.5] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-process.html#_fields_232)

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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:** [December 8, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-the-process-using-metricbeat/318525/7 "2022-12-08T08:33:29Z")

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