# Topbeat: seeing userid of process

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-seeing-userid-of-process/39039>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-seeing-userid-of-process/39039 "2016-01-12T22:34:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![biswajit86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@biswajit86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/biswajit86)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-seeing-userid-of-process/39039/1 "2016-01-12T22:34:43Z")

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Is there a way in topbeat to figure out the userid which is running the process.

We have a few instances where multiple user ids can run on the same host and we want to see that information in Elastic/Kibana

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/701>

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**Author:** ![owulff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@owulff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/owulff)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-seeing-userid-of-process/39039/2 "2016-01-13T22:35:24Z")

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This is tracked already as a feature request:

> [@Add process user name](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-process-user-name/29463):
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> Hi there I've run some tests with topbeat and I really like it. What I'm missing so far is the username of the process. Applications are running with dedicated local users for isolation purposes on the same server. Therefore, you have more than one java process running but you don't know to which application it belongs to. WDYT? If you're fine I can raise an issue. Thanks Oli

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-seeing-userid-of-process/39039/3 "2017-07-05T21:56:45Z")

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