# Process.name incomplete

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/process-name-incomplete/250804>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/process-name-incomplete/250804 "2020-10-02T14:53:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![wifi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wifi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wifi)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/process-name-incomplete/250804/5 "2020-10-15T13:42:08Z")

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there has been a similar issue in the past:

> [@Proc.name limited to 15 chars?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proc-name-limited-to-15-chars/36034/3):
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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: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23534263/what-is-the-maximum-allowed-…](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23534263/what-is-the-maximum-allowed-limit-on-the-length-of-a-process-name)

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