# Monitoring FFmpeg transcoding workers with Netdata

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-ffmpeg-transcoding-workers-with-netdata/8051>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 25, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-ffmpeg-transcoding-workers-with-netdata/8051 "2026-10-25T14:19:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-ffmpeg-transcoding-workers-with-netdata/8051/1 "2026-10-25T14:19:15Z")

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Hi everyone, I run a few servers that transcode user-uploaded videos with FFmpeg, driven by a PHP queue. I’d like Netdata to alert me when a worker is stuck (100% CPU for a long time but no output growth) or when the queue backs up. Is the apps.plugin per-process view the right way to track FFmpeg processes, or would you write a custom collector reading the queue length from Redis? Any example alert configs would be really helpful. Thanks!