Windows Processes Running

Wormly Metrics monitors Windows Processes - among thousands of other metrics.

The Windows® Process monitoring sensor monitors the number of system and user processes running over time. This data is presented in the following trend graph:

Monitoring the number of running processes is a useful way to be alerted to structural changes in your servers' operating environment and application load.

Unexpected sudden changes in the process count can indicate configuration changes, denial-of-service attacks, extreme traffic fluctuations, compromised security among other possibilities.