processes

Shows a snapshot of running processes.

processes

Description

The processes operator shows a snapshot of all currently running processes.

Schemas

Tenzir emits process information with the following schema.

tenzir.process

Contains detailed information about the process.

Field	Type	Description
name	string	The process name.
command_line	list<string>	The command line of the process.
pid	uint64	The process identifier.
ppid	uint64	The parent process identifier.
uid	uint64	The user identifier of the process owner.
gid	uint64	The group identifier of the process owner.
ruid	uint64	The real user identifier of the process owner.
rgid	uint64	The real group identifier of the process owner.
priority	string	The priority level of the process.
startup	time	The time when the process was started.
vsize	uint64	The virtual memory size of the process.
rsize	uint64	The resident set size (physical memory used) of the process.
swap	uint64	The amount of swap memory used by the process.
peak_mem	uint64	Peak memory usage of the process.
open_fds	uint64	The number of open file descriptors by the process.
utime	duration	The user CPU time consumed by the process.
stime	duration	The system CPU time consumed by the process.

Examples

Show running processes sorted by how long they've been running:

processes
sort -startup

Show the top five running processes by name:

processes
top name
head 5