How to handle the same process name？

ncabatoff / process-exporter

Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes

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Open alexciw opened 2 years ago

alexciw commented 2 years ago

If there are multiple processes with the same name on a machine, how does the component distinguish between the different processes?

lethargosapatheia commented 2 years ago

By PID I suppose?

alexciw commented 2 years ago

No, how to monitor for processes like containers where the pid changes frequently, but there are multiple processes with the same process name?