Looking for an open source monitoring solution that will capture specific process info

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  • process-exporter

    Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes

  • OP is specifically asking about MacOS, but for *nix use-cases, there's the process_exporter that works to expose process level statistics. https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter

  • cadvisor

    Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

  • If you're running things under systemd, you can enable process accounting and use cAdvisor.

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