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Application and Process Startup Metrics

Process Startup

uberAgent collects metrics for each application or process that is being launched like startup duration, IOPS during startup as well as if the process was started with admin privileges.

Note: as with all other metrics process startup duration is recorded automatically without requiring any configuration.
uberAgent optionally only shows new processes never seen before.

Note: processes are auto-grouped into applications, i.e. the application name is determined automatically without requiring any configuration. Information on how this works are available here.

If the configuration setting EnableExtendedInfo is enabled, uberAgent also collects metrics like the full path to the process executable in the file system as well the full commandline the process was launched with.

Details

  • Source type: uberAgent:Process:ProcessStartup
  • Used in dashboards: Application Startup, Process Startup, Single Application Detail, Analyze data over time
  • Enabled through configuration setting: ProcessStartup
  • Related configuration settings: [ProcessStartupSettings], [ProcessStartupDurationWaitIntervalOverride]

List of Fields in the Raw Agent Data

Field Description Data type Unit Measurement type Example
ProcName Process name String Snapshot chrome.exe
ProcUser Process user String Snapshot Domain\JohnDoe
StartupTimeMs Startup time duration Number ms Sum 300
StartupIOPS Startup I/O operations per second Number Count 150
AppId Associated application ID. Used by uberAgent to lookup application names and populate field AppName. String Snapshot GglChrm
ProcID Process ID Number Snapshot 456
ProcParentID Parent process ID Number Snapshot 789
SessionID Unique identifier that is generated by the machine when the session is created.
Will be reassigned to other sessions after logoff.
Number Snapshot 3
ProcGUID Unique identifier that is generated by uberAgent when the process is started String Snapshot 00000000-ebe5-469c-63ae-f5a1de28d401
SessionGUID Unique identifier that is generated by uberAgent when the session is created.
Valid for this session only.
String Snapshot 00000002-f295-9109-e7c7-c964011dd401
ProcParentName Parent process name String Snapshot powershell.exe
ProcPath Full path to the process executable in the file system String Snapshot C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
ProcCmdline Full commandline the process was launched with String Snapshot C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –url http://vastlimits.com
IsElevated Indicates if the process was started elevated (admin rights) String Snapshot C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
AppVersion Associated application version String Snapshot 67.0.3396.99

The following fields are empty unless EnableExtendedInfo is set to true: ProcID, ProcParentID, SessionID, ProcGUID, SessionGUID, ProcParentName, ProcPath, ProcCmdline

List of Calculated Fields

Field Description Data type Unit Measurement type Where available Example
User Content of field ProcUser String Snapshot Splunk data model Domain\JohnDoe
StartupTimeS Startup time duration Number s Sum Splunk data model 0.3
StartupIOCount StartupIOPS * StartupTimeMs / 1000 Number Sum Splunk data model 45
AppName Associated application name String Snapshot Splunk data model, Splunk SPL Google Chrome

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