process-exporter, Processes Grouped From /proc

process-exporter on EL 10 from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened systemd service on loopback; the live test reads /metrics and expects systemd and the exporter itself as named process groups with their CPU counters. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.

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Provenance

  • SHA-256 checksum
  • Signature (pending)

Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify

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```yaml
# process-exporter, Processes Grouped From /proc: https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/ansible-process-exporter (download from your IaC Bazaar account)
```

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process-exporter

process-exporter, per-process CPU, memory and file-descriptor metrics from /proc, from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened system service on loopback. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package, so the checksum is the whole story. EL 10 carries no process-exporter; ncabatoff ships a release with a checksum file beside it. The role downloads both and has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's file, then installs the binaries as root's in /usr/local/bin, pinned by process_exporter_version.

A service account, a hardened unit, a loopback listener. process-exporter is a system user with no shell that owns the data directory and nothing else; the unit runs with NoNewPrivileges, PrivateTmp, ProtectHome and ProtectSystem=strict. The listener is 127.0.0.1:9256 by default, for a proxy that authenticates or a client on the same host; the live test reads the listening sockets and expects loopback only.

Proven by the processes it counts. The live test reads /metrics and expects systemd and the exporter itself (whose comm is truncated to process-exporte by the kernel, as /proc reports it) as named groups with one process each, plus the CPU counters - /proc was read and grouped. The shipped configuration groups every process by command name; on a real host narrow it to the daemons that matter.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.

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  • Test

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