Process
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Process input plugin allows you to check how healthy a process is. It does so by performing a service check at every certain interval of time specified by the user.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
In order to start performing the checks, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
The following example will check the health of crond process.
In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:
Once Fluent Bit is running, you will see the health of process:
Key
Description
Proc_Name
Name of the target Process to check.
Interval_Sec
Interval in seconds between the service checks. Default value is 1.
Interval_Nsec
Specify a nanoseconds interval for service checks, it works in conjunction with the Interval_Sec configuration key. Default value is 0.
Alert
If enabled, it will only generate messages if the target process is down. By default this option is disabled.
Fd
If enabled, a number of fd is appended to each records. Default value is true.
Mem
If enabled, memory usage of the process is appended to each records. Default value is true.