How to Display the Associated Process in system.network.connections Metric with Hostmetrics Receiver on RHEL?

[josepcorrea]

Component(s)

receiver/hostmetrics/internal/scraper/networkscraper

Describe the issue you're reporting

Is there a way to get the system.network.connections metric to show the associated process? The receiver I'm using is hostmetrics with the network scraper, and the operating system is RHEL.

[github-actions]

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[braydonk]

I don't think there is a way to do this with our current metric definitions. Based on a cursory reading of gopsutil I think it's possible to get this information.

When adding new metrics to the hostmetricsreceiver these days, we try to get them added to our Semantic Conventions first, and adapt them here once they are standardized there.

Please open an issue in that repo requesting a metric that counts network connections per-process and we can start the work there. I am a member of the working group for system metric semantic conventions and will prioritize that issue accordingly there. Once we have it in the semantic conventions, we can figure out a plan for implementation.

[josepcorrea]

Hi @braydonk :

This is the issue: #38572

If you need anything else, let me know.

[crobert-1]

Removing needs triage based on code owner's response.