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Monitor application-level energy consumption #360
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Hello, recently I tried another energy measurement tool called JoularCore. Especially, one very convenient feature in JoularCore is the monitoring of energy consumption at an application-level, where an application may have multiple processes, e.g. the Chrome browser.
Could you help implement this feature or something similar in ALUMET? I have no idea how difficult it is.
Describe the solution you'd like
This feature could be enabled by some command-line options maybe.
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TheElectronWill commentedon Feb 27, 2026
Hello,
As far as I understood, JoularCore is a bit controversial due to its vibe-coded foundation, but anyway. How did you use it to monitor Chrome?
Alumet provides this feature in the form of the
energy-attributionplugin, which gives per-process or per-cgroup energy values.songwu0001 commentedon Feb 28, 2026
Hi,
I do not monitor Chrome myself for any purpose, just mention it as a "multi-process" example.
OK, I will try the energy-attribution pulgin!
By the way, where can I find the detailed documentation for a plugin?
TheElectronWill commentedon Mar 2, 2026
Each plugin is documented in its README, for instance plugins/energy-attribution/README.md. You can also find a copy of these readme (sometimes with more examples) in the User Book.
songwu0001 commentedon Mar 2, 2026
OK, thanks very much!