Query Regarding Process-Level Monitoring Dashboard in Splunk Observability Cloud

[rahusri2]

Hello Team,

Datadog provides a dedicated process-level monitoring dashboard that allows visibility into running processes, including CPU and memory utilization, as described here:
https://docs.datadoghq.com/infrastructure/process/?tab=linuxwindows

Could you please confirm whether Splunk Observability Cloud offers a similar native dashboard for monitoring at the process level, comparable to Datadog’s Process Monitoring feature? If available, kindly share the relevant documentation or guidance on how this can be enabled or accessed.

Regards,

Rahul Srivastava

[bishida · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, you can do process level monitoring. Enable the "process" hostmetrics scraper in your OTel config:
https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/manage-data/available-data-sources/supported-i...

Dashboards and navigators have summary views as well as individual metric time series you can detect and alert on.

[rahusri2]

Thank you for the detailed explanation, it was very helpful and worked for me.

I have a follow-up question. While reviewing the documentation you shared https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-observability-cloud/manage-data/available-data-sources/supported-i... it links to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/hostmetricsrece...), I noticed that the stability level for major process-level metrics is marked as "development".

From my understanding, this indicates that the feature may not yet be production-ready and could still be in a testing or evolving state. Could you provide more insight into this?

Additionally, are there alternative approaches for collecting these process level metrics without using the OTLP Collector?

[bishida]

I think the most important consideration with it being categorized as "development" is that it means it's possible that collector updates could introduce breaking changes, so it's important to keep an eye on release notes and make sure your configs remain valid with new releases. The hostmetrics receivers and its associated scrapers, like "process" scraper, have pretty wide adoption and are used in production environments.