feat: add actual process name to attributes - refs #367 #368
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This change adds new process-level attribute
name
, which (especially on Linux/Unix platforms) never seems to be empty, in contrast toexe
orcmdline
.Although the name of a process can be changed arbitrarily, it sometimes is the only way to get to display something.
Most notably, all the processes crated by the Linux kernel and its drivers would usually not get any name or label.
Now, the name allows to handle these in monitoring tools, e.g. for Prometheus: