topic Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes in Open Q&A

Getting the process uptime in hours or minutes

vishnu_kumar — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:36:50 GMT

Hi All,

In Linux, we can use the ps command to check how long a process has been running.

Does Dynatrace capture this data? If not, how can we capture it?

Thanks
Vishnu

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

AntonPineiro — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:18:10 GMT

Hi,

If you go to process view, you can see when process was available and restart events.

Best regards

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

vishnu_kumar — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:46:35 GMT

Thanks @AntonPineiro , am looking for how a Host, the Uptime is shown on its page.

Like:

if a metric can show this data, will use it on a dashboard or such

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

AntonPineiro — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:38:45 GMT

Hi,

Maybe process availability.

Best regards

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

vishnu_kumar — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:47:25 GMT

Actually no, that doesnt help my requirement, need duration of a process being up, not percentage or the current process state.

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

p_devulapalli — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:14:24 GMT

@vishnu_kumar I think the option to report process availability similar to host uptime in minutes or hours is currently not available out of the box . What you would be able to report on is if the process is Up or Down and the percent of time its available .

Re: How do you get the process uptime in hours or minutes

vishnu_kumar — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:23:59 GMT

Thanks for the info @p_devulapalli , do you think its possible by any means we can pull data from linux ps command?