# Proc.name limited to 15 chars?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proc-name-limited-to-15-chars/36034>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proc-name-limited-to-15-chars/36034 "2015-12-01T11:35:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proc-name-limited-to-15-chars/36034/3 "2015-12-02T09:55:05Z")

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It is already cut off in the stat file:

> 19211 (nac-logging-amq) S 1 19211 19211 0 -1 4202752 5873068 0 48 0 2444657 118010 0 0 20 0 1 0 363988890 143618048 3147 18446744073709551615 4194304 5777388 140726113689888 140726113689176 140479796634259 0 0 4224 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 16 0 0 7874544 7887424 30507008 140726113697094 140726113697600 140726113697600 140726113697736 0

It seems this is a hard limit of the proc filesystem: [linux - What is the maximum allowed limit on the length of a process name? - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23534263/what-is-the-maximum-allowed-limit-on-the-length-of-a-process-name)

The cmdline file contains the full name which could be used to extract the process name instead of the stat file.

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