Auto-Discovery of Application Process

Smart Agents >= 24.4 can auto-discover the application processes running on the host where Smart Agent is installed. It reports all the supported processes to the Controller.

The Smart Agent reports following processes, which can be instrumented using the respective agents. The following table provides the information about the processes that are monitored or auto-discovered on the specific platform.


Application Process	Required Agent	Supported Platform for Process Discovery
Java	Java	Windows Linux
.NET	.NET	Windows
Node.js	Node.js	Linux
Python	Python	Linux

To monitor the specific process, you can Install Agents that correspond to these processes.

The Processes tab in the Agent Management UI displays all the processes that are running on the hosts. To view the tab, you must install Smart Agent on the host machine. You can view both monitored and unmonitored processes. If a process is monitored by a supported Splunk AppDynamics Agent, the process is displayed as monitored on the Processes page.

Note:

Smart Agent currently supports auto-discovery for Java, Node.js, .NET, and Python processes.
Smart Agent detects PHP processes on Linux, but all the processes are displayed as unmonitored even when PHP Agent is installed.
The processes running on Windows are displayed in the Processes tab for Java and .NET applications.

To view all the application processes, navigate to Agent Management UI, then click the Processes tab.

To auto-attach a Java or Node.js agent to a specific process or service, you can modify the configuration in the ld_preload.json file. For more information about auto-attaching the agent to a specific process, see Auto-Attach Agents to Applications.

The following are fields that are displayed when you click Processes:


Name	Description
Monitoring Status	The monitored or unmonitored status of the application process. This field provides the information that the process is monitored or not.
Process ID	The process identifier (PID) for the reported process.
Process	The name of the active process
Agent Type	The type of the Agent. The values can be: `java` for Java Agent `node` for node.js Agent `dotnet_msi` for .NET Agent. `python3` for Python Agent
Smart Agent ID	The ID of the corresponding Smart Agent.
Host OS	The Operating System on which the host is active.
Host Name	The host name of the machine on which Smart Agent is running.
Started On	The date and time when the reported process was started.

Note: You can use either the Filter or the Search field to check specific information.