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Hi, I have 2 services with the same name on the same server and I would like to see if there is the possibility of monitoring them by PID process number. which plugin would help me since I only find to monitor by name.

Hi @h4doukeeN,

Monitoring PID will not work with the way you want to do it;because remember, a process is assigned a new PID every time its running.

And the problem is that you cannot assign a static PID in the windows system ;it will most likely cause a collision at some point in time
because windows might assign another process the same PID.

However,applications usually create a file for the where they store there process PIDs. So this is where you can start from,you need to first find that file.