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authorJoel Hans <joel@netdata.cloud>2020-12-08 13:56:34 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-12-08 13:56:34 -0700
commit2cb06e5a3ef88f6915bb414b362627a93cd5f746 (patch)
tree1b2aa9ffd361d0cb7a1f98bda3255287f131eb4b /collectors/apps.plugin
parent1526cb77eea9895239218f0b73b33388524f1153 (diff)
Add guide: Monitor any process in real-time with Netdata (#10338)
* Init process guide * Continue work on process guide * Finish initial draft * Tweak eBPF guide * Fixes for Amy
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@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
<!--
----
title: "apps.plugin"
+sidebar_label: "Application monitoring (apps.plugin)"
custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/apps.plugin/README.md
----
-->
# apps.plugin
@@ -39,35 +38,35 @@ that fork/spawn other short lived processes hundreds of times per second.
Each of these sections provides the same number of charts:
-- CPU Utilization
+- CPU utilization (`apps.cpu`)
- Total CPU usage
- - User / System CPU usage
+ - User/system CPU usage (`apps.cpu_user`/`apps.cpu_system`)
- Disk I/O
- - Physical Reads / Writes
- - Logical Reads / Writes
- - Open Unique Files (if a file is found open multiple times, it is counted just once)
+ - Physical reads/writes (`apps.preads`/`apps.pwrites`)
+ - Logical reads/writes (`apps.lreads`/`apps.lwrites`)
+ - Open unique files (if a file is found open multiple times, it is counted just once, `apps.files`)
- Memory
- - Real Memory Used (non shared)
- - Virtual Memory Allocated
- - Minor Page Faults (i.e. memory activity)
+ - Real Memory Used (non-shared, `apps.mem`)
+ - Virtual Memory Allocated (`apps.vmem`)
+ - Minor page faults (i.e. memory activity, `apps.minor_faults`)
- Processes
- - Threads Running
- - Processes Running
- - Pipes Open
- - Carried Over Uptime (since the Netdata restart)
- - Minimum Uptime
- - Average Uptime
- - Maximum Uptime
-
-- Swap Memory
- - Swap Memory Used
- - Major Page Faults (i.e. swap activity)
+ - Threads running (`apps.threads`)
+ - Processes running (`apps.processes`)
+ - Carried over uptime (since the last Netdata Agent restart, `apps.uptime`)
+ - Minimum uptime (`apps.uptime_min`)
+ - Average uptime (`apps.uptime_average`)
+ - Maximum uptime (`apps.uptime_max`)
+ - Pipes open (`apps.pipes`)
+- Swap memory
+ - Swap memory used (`apps.swap`)
+ - Major page faults (i.e. swap activiy, `apps.major_faults`)
- Network
- - Sockets Open
-
-In addition, if the [eBPF collector](/collectors/ebpf.plugin/README.md) is running, your dashboard will also show
-an additional [list](/collectors/ebpf.plugin/README.md#integration-with-appsplugin) of charts using low-level Linux metrics.
+ - Sockets open (`apps.sockets`)
+In addition, if the [eBPF collector](/collectors/ebpf.plugin/README.md) is running, your dashboard will also show an
+additional [list of charts](/collectors/ebpf.plugin/README.md#integration-with-appsplugin) using low-level Linux
+metrics.
+
The above are reported:
- For **Applications** per target configured.