I'm guessing the memory value that I'm looking for would be underdevice.os.processes (found in another post), but I don't know how to search those values. Once I get the memory value, I think I can use theconvToUnits subroutine in the "Nice Memory Events" example. Am I heading the right direction

A device process does not have an attribute for the amount of memory that a process should use so you don't find anything helpful in OSProcess.py. A device DOES have an attribute for it's total memory - it is under hw - device.hw.totalMemory .

The way I went about this was to first create a new event class, /Perf/Memory/Process to use in the threshold definition. This event class will have a transform that prettifies the summary.

Next, pick a process on a device as a test - preferably one that uses a reasonable amount of memory. Select the process from the device's OSProcesses list; change the Display dropdown from Graphs to Templates and click the "Create Local Copy" button - that way we can play around with the test process without mucking up anything else.

Now navigate to ADVANCED -> Monitoring Templates ->OSProcess and select the instance for the local copy you have just created. Create a new threshold based on the mem_mem datapoint.