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Before you get into process monitoring, you probably want to look at cgroup monitoring. Since most services are started by systemd units, you can use the systemd_exporter or cAdvisor to track process groups.
Before you get into process monitoring, you probably want to look at cgroup monitoring. Since most services are started by systemd units, you can use the systemd_exporter or cAdvisor to track process groups.
However, the process_exporter is useful for some situations where software has complex subprocess management and you want to track based on the cmdline running. For example all of the various PostgreSQL worker processes.