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How to know top 10 or top running processes/services in a windows server so that I can implement SAM component monitor on them?

Hi,

I am trying to implement component monitors or application monitors on the processes running on a set of servers. However, when I see real-time process explorer, each server has more than 60 to 80 process running simultaneously, out of which only 2-3 processes are using CPU. I cannot implement on all 60-80 processes as it will be not required and too time consuming and at the same time, I do not want to implement monitor on just 2 or 3 processes as I feel that is too less of monitoring.

I am confused as to

How do I derive the top 10 or 20 running process among all of them?
Is there any option in Solarwinds which I can use to derive top 10 running processes?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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jeilers

I would check this post out and see if you can find a solution from it. I'm not sure if this gets you exactly what you want but it might get you close! The Ultimate CPU Alert - Reloaded! Hope this helps and if you have any more questions definitely keep on coming here!

mudassir

Basically, my question was How many processes must be monitored? probably top 10?

I found out that

A server is configured to just one or two major
application which includes other few apps/process in the shape of dependency
process. for instance, SQL server.
Only the dependency processes needs to monitored for the major app to run, that should be enough.
Applying monitors to ‘top 10 processes’ does not
make sense. It’s useful only when we have an alert/trigger as that’s the time
when we check top 10 running processes to identify what’s going on.

Summary: Just monitor the main application running on server and it's dependency processes.