Process consuming high CPU

[ssamraj]

Hi Team,

Is it possible monitor which process is consuming high CPU (for Processor "_Total" rather than individual cores) on a windows server? If yes, any insights on this would be helpful.

Many thanks,

Srikanth Samraj

[ssamraj]

To top up my previous ask, this must be through custom event for alerting..

[mgome]

The Process CPU usage (builtin:tech.generic.cpu.usage) metric should give you what you're looking.

Percent of host CPU time used by processes in PGI

It has a Process (dt.entity.process_group_instance) dimension.  You can specify this dimension in the custom event message using a placeholder, {dims:dt.entity.process_group_instance.name}

[AntonioSousa · Accepted solution]

You should be able to see this through the Host page, clicking "Consuming processes":

When the new page appears, select the processes you are interested in, and then you will be able to check in the graph the CPU (or other metrics) contribution:

You can also do this with Data Explorer, with filtering & splitting, but this is a quick way. You can also define specific alerting if needed.

[ssamraj]

Thanks much. Is this process usage captured as an average rather than at individual cores?

[AntonioSousa]

This is the percentage of total CPU, so if you've got 25% on a 4 core system, it means the process is using a full core...

[ssamraj]

thanks much AntonioSousa