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Process Exporter

Prometheus exporter for per-process metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 2.2k stars Medium setup MIT

process-exporter exposes per-process and per-process-group CPU, memory, and IO metrics for Prometheus. It enables fine-grained resource attribution on busy hosts.

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Key features

  • Per-process metrics
  • Process group aggregation
  • CPU, memory, IO data
  • Prometheus compatible

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Go

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