Process & Foreground Application Monitoring

Track active foreground software, user focus time, and background processes.

Sentinel Operations Team

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Updated August 28, 2026

v3.2

The Process Monitor captures which window is in the foreground, recording the exact amount of time spent in business tools (Outlook, Excel, Visual Studio) versus non-work applications.

Endpoint Deep Dive — Process & User Activity Timeline

Live Telemetry

DESKTOP-SEC-8902192.168.1.144

Active User: corp\sarah.chen

CPU Load

0.18%

RAM Used

14.2 MB

Heartbeat

< 15s

Foreground Activity Timeline:

[14:22:04] EXCEL.EXE Active (32 mins)

[14:20:10] chrome.exe (https://portal.azure.com) Focused

[13:45:00] User Idle timeout 00:00 (Active)

Pin #1:Process Hierarchy Tree

Shows parent-child process relationships with full binary path, hash, and command-line arguments.

Pin #2:Real-Time Resource Gauges

Instant CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O telemetry streamed from the client agent service.

1Process Hierarchy Tree

2Real-Time Resource Gauges

Figure 3.1: Live process telemetry viewer displaying active foreground processes, CPU utilization, and idle time.

Tags:#Process Monitoring#Foreground Apps#Productivity

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