Cherry-pick #8275 to 6.x: Added function to return pretty names on "system" module "process summary" metricset #8312
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Cherry-pick of PR #8275 to 6.x branch. Original message:
Following this discuss https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-metric-beat-log/147918/3 It's true that I found that the error message was a bit cryptic.
According to this http://thelinuxstuff.blogspot.com/2012/08/process-state-codes-in-ps-output.html the state 88, which corresponds to
X
state in a linux process corresponds todead
state.I thought it could be nice to have a bit more descriptive error message in such case to help user debugging his own problems:
So, in the case of the discuss issue where the message had this format:
It will become this:
BTW, I couldn't manage to compile any test, system was complaining about some redefined variables: