Monitoring Processes on Windows servers

Question

We currently run NPM and have an alert set up to notify us if the CPU% spikes to >= 90 for longer than 5 minutes. We've recently gotten this alert for one of our servers. The alert seems to happen at the same time. We don't see anything in the event logs, scheduled tasks, anti-virus logs that point to what could cause the problem.

Our initial thought was to try APM to find out if it will meet our needs for monitoring processes on our servers. I've got APM installed and have a question. Can you use APM to monitor all processes and then if any of them get past a threshold we specify notify us of the process? I've seen where you can set APM up to monitor a specific process but I want to monitor all processes.

Thanks.

jiri.tomek · Accepted Answer

Hello snowmizer,
process monitor in APM is designed for specific process but you can use windows script monitor and write a script that would iterate over all processes in the system and reports processes with high CPU usage.