Monitoring processes

Hi Scott,

you can monitor processes under the Performance log. You need to add the Process(*)% Processor Time counter, I have a post on it here. 

https://www.systemcenterautomation.com/2018/07/adding-azure-log-analytics-performance-counters/

Before you do that consider that it will add extra log ingestion and thus billing. That will work, especially if your process isn't installed as a windows service as the blog Gourav linked to. If you use that counter you could then look for when that process is using 0 amount of processor time.

You could also write a powershell script to collect this information for only select processes and send it to the log analytics api.

as always with log analytics there are multiple options to solve a problem.

I hope this helps, 

~Billy