process-monitor

process-monitor

Monitors the CPU and memory usage for a PID or collection of PIDs asynchronously and emits an event with a stats object which includes information about the specified PID. Allows a user-specified format string for creating a friendly status message.

Getting Started

Install the module:

npm install process-monitor

Use it in your script:

var procmon = require('process-monitor');

Monitor a single PID or multiple PIDs:

// Single PID
var single = procmon.monitor({ pid: 1, interval: 5000 }).start();

// Multiple PIDs
var multi = procmon.monitor({ pid: [1, 2, 3] }).start();

Handle the stats response - an event will be emitted for each of the specified PIDs and includes the PID:

single.on('stats', function(stats) {
  console.dir(stats); // Outputs: { pid: 1, cpu: '0.0', mem: '2248', out: '' }
})

Note: if a PID is not found, the resulting cpu and mem properties will be 0.0 and 0 respectively.

Documentation

Generated code documentation is available here and in the docs directory. This documentation is generated using docco-husky - to regenerate the documentation, run $ docco-husky lib/*.

Currently the monitor function accepts the following configuration options:

pid

The pid option may be a single process ID or an array from process IDs to monitor. The PID is also included in the stats object on when the stats event is emitted.

procmon.monitor({ pid: 1}).start();
procmon.monitor({ pid: [1, 2, 3] }).start();

interval

The rate in milliseconds at which the processes are checked and the stats event is emitted. The rate defaults to 1000 miliseconds.

procmon.monitor({ pid: 1, interval: 5000 }).start();

format

Specify a format string that will be updated in the stats object on update. Use {pid}, {cpu}, and {mem} to output a friendly message on update.

procmon.monitor({
  pid: [1, 2],
  interval: 5000,
  format: 'PID {pid} - {cpu}% CPU - {mem} memory'
}).start();

procmon.on('stats', function(stats) {
  console.log(stats.out);
});

technique

There are two supported techniques for reading process information.

procmon.monitor({
  pid: 1,
  interval: 5000,
  technique: 'ps'
}).start();

• ps (default): Uses the ps command to find CPU and memory usage. CPU value returned from the ps command is a lifetime average and does not reflect the current usage.
• proc: Uses information stored in the /proc files to calculate current CPU usage. Implementation comes from the node-usage module. Only supported on Linux.

Release History

• 2013/04/23 - v0.3.0 - Added support for current CPU usage. Uses node-usage module.
• 2012/09/28 - v0.2.0 - Added format to the configuration object which accepts a format for the output (the out property of the stats object). Uses stringformat which allows the use of {cpu}, {mem}, and {pid} in the format string.
• 2012/09/24 - v0.1.1 - Documentation update for publishing to npm.
• 2012/09/14 - v0.1.0 - Initial release.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Modulus Licensed under the MIT license.