# Status of stopped process

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [April 16, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084 "2019-04-16T12:17:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![holiveira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/holiveira/32/100472_2.png) [@holiveira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/holiveira)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084/1 "2019-04-16T12:17:37Z")

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how to capture the status of the process when it is stopped? I only have the status when it is running.

Metricbeat 7.0.0 (Windows Server 2008 R2)  
Elasticsearch 7.0.0 (Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS)

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084/2 "2019-04-16T17:27:19Z")

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Hi @holiveira and welcome to discuss 🙂

Metricbeat only collects information from things that are there, it cannot monitor things that are not there. For processes it only gets information from running processes, as `top` would do. It can at some moments get a process in `stopped` state if it has just been stopped but is still in the process table, but this is quite rare.

If you don't want to miss that a process has stopped, you can use the [Auditbeat system module](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-auditbeat-system-module), that sends events when processes start or stop.

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**Author:** ![holiveira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/holiveira/32/100472_2.png) [@holiveira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/holiveira)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084/3 "2019-04-16T17:40:17Z")

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Hmmm, right. Thanks for the feedback. 🙂

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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:** [May 14, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-of-stopped-process/177084/4 "2019-05-14T17:40:28Z")

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