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# Processes

The process overview gives you an overview of all processes running on the host that were detected by Pulsar.

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<i class="fa-compass">:compass:</i> Navigate to **Hosts** → **Overview** and click the name of a host to open the host detail menu on the [Dashboard](/docs/manual/english/platform-usage/host-detail-view/dashboard.md). Then click **Monitoring** → **Processes** in the host detail menu to show a list of all processes that run on the host.

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The [process overview](#processes-overview) provides information such as:

* which process was started by which command.
* which process was started by which user.
* how much CPU and RAM load a process causes.

You can also [automatically refresh](#autoreload) the overview and [stop processes](#processes-overview) directly from the Enginsight platform.

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## Navigation

### Sorting List Items

{% hint style="info" %}
By default, the process overview is sorted by CPU load.
{% endhint %}

<i class="fa-computer-mouse">:computer-mouse:</i> Click the **Sort** icon <i class="fa-sort">:sort:</i> next to a column name in the table header to sort by that column in ascending <i class="fa-angle-up">:angle-up:</i> or descending order <i class="fa-chevron-down">:chevron-down:</i> .

<i class="fa-computer-mouse">:computer-mouse:</i> Click the sort icon <i class="fa-bars-sort">:bars-sort:</i> above the list to adjust the priority of the applied sorting. A menu opens that shows all columns by which the list is currently sorted. Drag and drop the shown items to change the sorting priority.

### Further Actions for List Items

The following action is available:

<table><thead><tr><th width="200.0703125">Action</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Kill</td><td><p>Stop a process directly from the Enginsight platform.<br></p><p><i class="fa-computer-mouse">:computer-mouse:</i> Click <i class="fa-laptop-slash">:laptop-slash:</i> <strong>Kill</strong> to stop the process.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Processes: Overview

The process overview is structured as a table.

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The following information is shown:

<table><thead><tr><th width="200.11328125">Column</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Process</td><td>Shows the name of the process as well as additional details about how the process is executed.</td></tr><tr><td>CPU</td><td>Shows the CPU load caused by the process as a percentage.</td></tr><tr><td>RAM</td><td>Shows the memory required by the process in megabytes (MB).</td></tr><tr><td>Child Processes</td><td>Shows subprocesses of the parent process, if available.</td></tr><tr><td>User</td><td><p>Shows the user that started the process.<br></p><p>This may be a physical user, such as a local Windows user or a user with administrator privileges (on Linux systems, this is the <strong>root</strong> user), or a specific service.</p></td></tr><tr><td>PID</td><td>Shows the unique process identifier assigned by the host system.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Autoreload

Use the toggle <i class="fa-toggle-large-on">:toggle-large-on:</i> next to **Autoreload** to enable or disable automatic real-time refreshing of the process overview.

{% hint style="info" %}
This option is enabled by default.
{% endhint %}

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