telegraf/plugins/inputs/system/PROCESSES_README.md

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# Processes Input Plugin
This plugin gathers info about the total number of processes and groups
them by status (zombie, sleeping, running, etc.)
On linux this plugin requires access to procfs (/proc), on other OSes
it requires access to execute `ps`.
### Configuration:
```toml
# Get the number of processes and group them by status
[[inputs.processes]]
# no configuration
```
Another possible configuration is to define an alternative path for resolving the /proc location.
Using the environment variable `HOST_PROC` the plugin will retrieve process information from the specified location.
`docker run -v /proc:/rootfs/proc:ro -e HOST_PROC=/rootfs/proc`
### Measurements & Fields:
- processes
- blocked (aka disk sleep or uninterruptible sleep)
- running
- sleeping
- stopped
- total
- zombie
- dead
- wait (freebsd only)
- idle (bsd and Linux 4+ only)
- paging (linux only)
- total_threads (linux only)
### Process State Mappings
Different OSes use slightly different State codes for their processes, these
state codes are documented in `man ps`, and I will give a mapping of what major
OS state codes correspond to in telegraf metrics:
```
Linux FreeBSD Darwin meaning
R R R running
S S S sleeping
Z Z Z zombie
X none none dead
T T T stopped
I I I idle (sleeping for longer than about 20 seconds)
D D,L U blocked (waiting in uninterruptible sleep, or locked)
W W none paging (linux kernel < 2.6 only), wait (freebsd)
```
### Tags:
None
### Example Output:
```
$ telegraf --config ~/ws/telegraf.conf --input-filter processes --test
* Plugin: processes, Collection 1
> processes blocked=8i,running=1i,sleeping=265i,stopped=0i,total=274i,zombie=0i,dead=0i,paging=0i,total_threads=687i 1457478636980905042
```