Process monitoring

simob captures a full snapshot of the process table at a regular cadence and reports per-process CPU, memory, and identity metadata.

How it works

The simob agent takes a snapshot of every running process (think htop) every 60 seconds.

Process enumeration is cross-platform and relies on gopsutil.

Data collected

The agent collects the following attributes for each process:

Attribute	Description
PID	Operating system process identifier.
PPID	Identifier of the parent process.
Name	Executable name of the process.
User	Owning user account.
CPU	CPU usage as a fraction of total system capacity (0 to 1), interval-averaged.
Memory	Share of total physical memory used (0 to 1), based on RSS.
RSS	Resident set size in bytes.
Threads	Number of threads in the process.

Troubleshooting

Agent version

Process monitoring is available since version 0.10.0 of the simob agent.

To check your current agent version, run:

simob version

To update to the latest version, simply run the update command:

simob update