How to monitor CPU Usage, IO and memory usage of specific processes running on LINUX system ?

Hi Swanand,

What are you really trying to get out of this? Dynatrace Application Monitoring collects host health for different processes by default (Monitoring -> Hosts) will show this information for 6.0+

Edit: sorry I just noticed you need the PID, the default host health measuring will not gather the PID

Hello Kyle,

I agree that Dynatrace Application Monitoring collects host health for different processes by default, but as per my understanding it collects overall CPU Usage not single process CPU usage.

I want to collect performance data(CPU Usage, IO Operations., Memory Usage, PID) for single process..

EX: there are several applications running on LINUX machine.. Apache, Tomacat, Web Application, JAVA

So take an example that I want to know how much CPU Usage, IO Operations., Memory Usage, PID by Apache server.

In my case, I want to collect data for my application server related processes.

During windows performance monitoring, I could collect data specific to process through measures specific attributes which is disable in UNIX monitoring.

Please refer following snapshot of measure details during windows performance monitoring

Here you can see that I could give values counterName, instance name which is my application process and onject name based on PerfMon.

Because of this I could collect CPU Usage of coreServer which is my application process.

Same thing I want to do in UNIX, but as I have seen measures specific attributes are disabled.

So I tried with creating new metric plugin which I have mentioned in my earlier discussion.

But for that I need to mention key value pairs.

So I want to know how to do that part ? 

Or is there any easiest way to achieve my objective, please let me know that then  ?

Thanks in advance !!!

Thanks And Regards,

Swanand S. Dande

Hi Swanand,

Double check your Infrastructure dashboard as noted above. Below is a view from my system showing that we have a process instrumented on our server. Clicking into that we can see the PID by hovering over the i icon as well as a view of CPU and Heap. I will double check to see how to get that information from a monitor, andreas.grabner@dynatrace.com might be able to give you a clearer picture on some of this. I'll post a follow up based on my findings.

HTH,

Kyle