Process

Process

Status:

type: process

Description: An operating system process.

Identifying Attributes:

Key	Stability	Requirement Level	Value Type	Description	Example Values
process.creation.time		Recommended	string	The date and time the process was created, in ISO 8601 format.	2023-11-21T09:25:34.853Z
process.pid		Recommended	int	Process identifier (PID).	1234

Descriptive Attributes:

Key	Stability	Requirement Level	Value Type	Description	Example Values
process.args_count		Conditionally Required [1]	int	Length of the process.command_args array [2]	4
process.command		Conditionally Required [3]	string	The command used to launch the process (i.e. the command name). On Linux based systems, can be set to the zeroth string in proc/[pid]/cmdline. On Windows, can be set to the first parameter extracted from GetCommandLineW.	cmd/otelcol
process.command_args		Conditionally Required [4]	string[]	All the command arguments (including the command/executable itself) as received by the process. On Linux-based systems (and some other Unixoid systems supporting procfs), can be set according to the list of null-delimited strings extracted from proc/[pid]/cmdline. For libc-based executables, this would be the full argv vector passed to main. SHOULD NOT be collected by default unless there is sanitization that excludes sensitive data.	["cmd/otecol", "--config=config.yaml"]
process.command_line		Conditionally Required [5]	string	The full command used to launch the process as a single string representing the full command. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetCommandLineW. Do not set this if you have to assemble it just for monitoring; use process.command_args instead. SHOULD NOT be collected by default unless there is sanitization that excludes sensitive data.	C:\cmd\otecol --config="my directory\config.yaml"
process.executable.name		Conditionally Required [6]	string	The name of the process executable. On Linux based systems, this SHOULD be set to the base name of the target of /proc/[pid]/exe. On Windows, this SHOULD be set to the base name of GetProcessImageFileNameW.	otelcol
process.executable.path		Conditionally Required [7]	string	The full path to the process executable. On Linux based systems, can be set to the target of proc/[pid]/exe. On Windows, can be set to the result of GetProcessImageFileNameW.	/usr/bin/cmd/otelcol
process.interactive		Recommended	boolean	Whether the process is connected to an interactive shell.
process.linux.cgroup		Recommended	string	The control group associated with the process. [8]	1:name=systemd:/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-3.scope; 0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tmux-spawn-0267755b-4639-4a27-90ed-f19f88e53748.scope
process.owner		Recommended	string	The username of the user that owns the process.	root
process.parent_pid		Recommended	int	Parent Process identifier (PPID).	111
process.title		Recommended	string	Process title (proctitle) [9]	cat /etc/hostname; xfce4-session; bash
process.working_directory		Recommended	string	The working directory of the process.	/root

[1] process.args_count: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[2] process.args_count: This field can be useful for querying or performing bucket analysis on how many arguments were provided to start a process. More arguments may be an indication of suspicious activity.

[3] process.command: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[4] process.command_args: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[5] process.command_line: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[6] process.executable.name: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[7] process.executable.path: See Selecting process attributes for details.

[8] process.linux.cgroup: Control groups (cgroups) are a kernel feature used to organize and manage process resources. This attribute provides the path(s) to the cgroup(s) associated with the process, which should match the contents of the /proc/[PID]/cgroup file.

[9] process.title: In many Unix-like systems, process title (proctitle), is the string that represents the name or command line of a running process, displayed by system monitoring tools like ps, top, and htop.

Process Runtime

Status:

type: process.runtime

Description: The single (language) runtime instance which is monitored.

Identifying Attributes:

Key	Stability	Requirement Level	Value Type	Description	Example Values
process.runtime.name		Recommended	string	The name of the runtime of this process.	OpenJDK Runtime Environment
process.runtime.version		Recommended	string	The version of the runtime of this process, as returned by the runtime without modification.	14.0.2

Descriptive Attributes:

Key	Stability	Requirement Level	Value Type	Description	Example Values
process.runtime.description		Recommended	string	An additional description about the runtime of the process, for example a specific vendor customization of the runtime environment.	Eclipse OpenJ9 Eclipse OpenJ9 VM openj9-0.21.0