# Monitoring process status

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat, heartbeat\
**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298 "2022-07-21T13:21:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![alytkowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alytkowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alytkowski)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298/1 "2022-07-21T13:21:13Z")

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Hi,  
is there a way to monitor just the process status (up/down), just like Heartbeat monitors do? In the documentation for Heartbeat, there's no such possibility. I can use Metricbeat to collect metrics of the processes, however this doesn't allow me to check on the status if a process is down, unless I don't know a way to do this - hence the question.

Regards,  
Adam Lytkowski

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298/2 "2022-07-21T22:06:39Z")

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Unfortunately that is not something we can currently do

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**Author:** ![alytkowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alytkowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alytkowski)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298/3 "2022-07-22T06:08:18Z")

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Is there a plan for the future to implement this, can you shed some light?

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298/4 "2022-07-22T06:16:37Z")

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Metricbeat reports processes... Have you looked at that?

If you look at the exported fields

> **`process.state`**
> 
> The process state. For example: "running".
> 
> type: keyword

> **[System process metricset | Metricbeat Reference \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-process.html)**

And

> **[System process\_summary metricset | Metricbeat Reference \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-process_summary.html)**

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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:** [August 19, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-process-status/310298/5 "2022-08-19T08:16:56Z")

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