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Documentation Grafana Alloy Reference Components discovery discovery.process

discovery.process

discovery.process discovers processes running on the local Linux OS.

Usage

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discovery.process "LABEL" {

}

Arguments

The following arguments are supported:

Targets joining

If join is specified, discovery.process will join the discovered processes based on the __container_id__ label.

For example, if join is specified as follows:

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[
  {
    "pod": "pod-1",
    "__container_id__": "container-1"
  },
  {
    "pod": "pod-2",
    "__container_id__": "container-2"
  }
]

And the discovered processes are:

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[
  {
    "__process_pid__": "1",
    "__container_id__": "container-1"
  },
  {
    "__process_pid__": "2"
  }
]

The resulting targets are:

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[
  {
    "__container_id__": "container-1",
    "__process_pid__": "1",
    "pod": "pod-1"
  },
  {
    "__process_pid__": "2"
  },
  {
    "__container_id__": "container-1",
    "pod": "pod-1"
  },
  {
    "__container_id__": "container-2",
    "pod": "pod-2"
  }
]

Blocks

The following blocks are supported inside the definition of discovery.process:

discover_config block

The discover_config block describes which process metadata to discover.

The following arguments are supported:

Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:

Each target includes the following labels:

• __process_pid__: The process PID.
• __meta_process_exe: The process executable path. Taken from /proc/<pid>/exe.
• __meta_process_cwd: The process current working directory. Taken from /proc/<pid>/cwd.
• __meta_process_commandline: The process command line. Taken from /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
• __meta_process_uid: The process UID. Taken from /proc/<pid>/status.
• __meta_process_username: The process username. Taken from __meta_process_uid and os/user/LookupID.
• __container_id__: The container ID. Taken from /proc/<pid>/cgroup. If the process is not running in a container, this label is not set.

Component health

discovery.process is only reported as unhealthy when given an invalid configuration. In those cases, exported fields retain their last healthy values.

Debug information

discovery.process does not expose any component-specific debug information.

Debug metrics

discovery.process does not expose any component-specific debug metrics.

Examples

Example discovering processes on the local host

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discovery.process "all" {
  refresh_interval = "60s"
  discover_config {
    cwd = true
    exe = true
    commandline = true
    username = true
    uid = true
    container_id = true
  }
}

Example discovering processes on the local host and joining with discovery.kubernetes

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discovery.kubernetes "pyroscope_kubernetes" {
  selectors {
    field = "spec.nodeName=" + env("HOSTNAME")
    role = "pod"
  }
  role = "pod"
}

discovery.process "all" {
  join = discovery.kubernetes.pyroscope_kubernetes.targets
  refresh_interval = "60s"
  discover_config {
    cwd = true
    exe = true
    commandline = true
    username = true
    uid = true
    container_id = true
  }
}

Compatible components

discovery.process can accept arguments from the following components:

• Components that export Targets

discovery.process has exports that can be consumed by the following components:

• Components that consume Targets