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cleanup process check #920

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title: Process check
integration_title: Process Check

newhlevel: true
kind: integration
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### Overview
# Overview

* Capture metrics from specific running processes on a system such as CPU %, memory, and I/O.
* Monitor the status of running processes with [Process Monitors][1] (**Requires Datadog Agent >= 5.1.0**).

### Installation
# Installation

N/A
No installation required.

### Configuration
# Configuration

Configure the Agent to connect to your processes. Our example configuration will monitor the `ssh`, `sshd`, and `postgres` processes.

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<%= insert_example_links(conf:"process", check:"process")%>

### Validation
# Validation

1. Execute the info command

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process
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- instance #0 [OK]
- Collected 8 metrics & 0 events & 4 service checks
- Collected 18 metrics & 0 events & 2 service checks

Each instance, regardless of the number of search strings used, counts for a single instance in the info command output.

### Metrics
# Metrics

Visit the Metrics Explorer to see the new metrics available. You will find all the metrics under `system.processes`.

| Process Check Metrics |
|-------------------|
| system.processes.cpu.pct |
| system.processes.mem.rss |
| system.processes.mem.vms |
| system.processes.number |
| system.processes.threads |
| system.processes.involuntary_ctx_switches |
| system.processes.open_file_descriptors |
| system.processes.voluntary_ctx_switches |
{:.table}
<%= get_metrics_from_git('system', 'system.processes') %>


[1]: /guides/monitoring#process
[2]: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/blob/master/checks.d/process.py
[3]: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/blob/master/conf.d/process.yaml.example