Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Real-Time Process Explorer data

Different information is displayed in the RTPE, depending on the protocol used to monitor a node. The following table shows the differences in the data gathered by a process based on the protocol used.

Monitor process WMI SNMP SolarWinds Platform Agent for Linux/Unix

Name

Yes

Yes

Yes

Process ID

Yes

Yes

Yes

Assigned Application

Yes

Yes

Yes

CPU usage

Yes

Yes

Yes

Physical Memory

Yes

Yes

Yes

Virtual Memory

Yes

No

Yes

Disk I/O

Yes

No

Yes

User Name

Yes

No

Yes

Command Line

Yes*

Yes*

Yes*

Polling interval

Five seconds

Up to two minutes

Windows servers update SNMP statistics every two minutes, and it takes two updates to provide an accurate calculation.

Note the following details:

  • Data displayed in the RTPE via SNMP can take up to four minutes to appear.
  • Empty rows may appear if your SolarWinds Platform account does not have rights to display certain data.
  • By default, all available columns except User Name and Command Line appear for the top ten running processes. To sort columns, click the column header and then click the drop-down arrow.
  • WinRM is the default transport method used by WMI-based component monitors.

Show all running processes

Click Show All in the bottom-left of the window.

Show a set number of running processes

Change the number in the text box next to the Show All button

Pause polling

If available, click Pause Polling in the top-left of the window.

End processes

Check the boxes next to the processes you want to end and then click End Process. This option is only available when the RTPE is using a WMI connection.

Start polling

Click Start Polling in the top-left of the window.

For Windows-based nodes, change the credentials by clicking Use Different Credentials to open the credential library dialog box.

Clicking Refresh will re-poll the running processes.