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Is there any way to get the top processes that uses CPU usage for a server

Hi,

We have an existing alert for monitoring the cpu usage of a server triggered when it reaches the threshold.

users are asking whether we can include the processes that causes the cpu usage to reach threshold (or high cpu usage in our case)

Is there any way to get the top processes that uses CPU usage for a server in the alerting part ?

Also please find below the variables inserted in the description part of the trigger action page:
----> Critical: High CPU Load on ${NodeName} is now ${CPULoad} <----

If we can possibly get the process details, help me to include the same in the above mentioned variables.

Thanks in advance!!

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arunprasaad

Thanks much Derik.

Appreciate your help

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dgsmith80

There should be an out of the box alert called "High CPU Utilization with Top 10 Processes" which you can enable, and it does just this. If you Duplicate the alert you can customise it to suit your needs. By default it looks for CPU Load > 80% WHERE Node IsServer = Yes. The alert then triggers the SolarWinds.APM.RealTimeProcessPoller to check the processes running and adds them to the Node Notes, which is then included in alert email.

arunprasaad

Is there any way to look at the processes using high cpu at real-time in solarwinds ?

high cpu

derik.pfeffer

arunprasaad,

If you have SAM, there is a built in view of processes you can access directly from the Nodes Management Widget. This is also permissioned into a read-only or full control option to allow you to kill a process.

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Derik Pfeffer

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dgsmith80

Yes - Use the Real-Time Process Monitor which can be found in the "Node Management" Widget of your Node Details page.

arunprasaad

Thanks much Derik.

Appreciate your help

arunprasaad

Thanks much Dave

arunprasaad

Hi Dave,

Is the mentioned .exe file opens any console ? since it is showing a black split second screen and goes off.

ALSO I'M UNABLE TO RETRIEVE THE PROCESS INFORMATION IN THE ALERT. It is not displaying notes information when i tried to manually trigger as an email alert.

PLEASE FIND THE EXTERNAL PROGRAM EXECUTED:

\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\APM\SolarWinds.APM.RealTimeProcessPoller -n=${NodeID} -alert=${N=Alerting;M=AlertDefID} -alertId=${N=Alerting;M=AlertID}

marcrobinson

Make sure you add the variable for the alert notes into the email. ${N=Alerting;M=Notes}

mesverrum

What that exe is doing is launching a poll against your node to collect the top processes and then it adds a note to the alert that lists them out. You have to leave enough time between launching that process and escalating to send the message for that whole thing to complete and you need to include the alert notes variable as mentioned by others.

Alert Email does not contain top 10 processes - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

dgsmith80

New Link from SC: Alert Email does not contain top 10 processes