MonitoringHost.exe
by Microsoft
Monitoring
Summary
SCOM Monitoring Host agent process
MonitoringHost.exe is the 1654th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 526 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
1654th
most commonly executed Windows program
526
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 25dc87920559da146acc16b983b77a16beb953e975c850d6b6f8474a86e527a740.11%
- cb06e1d5c09df125a09aef7200c9d1943ab4b8b83091fbb62c2f0557084b4c2238.21%
- e2f3fa306b29d8b94cb569ce0a1dbc4b5669ed1a7c5259c7084d571491aaf51521.67%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- cscript.exe98.29%
- pmfexe.exe1.08%
- cmd.exe0.49%
- powershell.exe0.13%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.