How to Get CPU Usage by Process using PowerShell

To get CPU usage by process in PowerShell, you can use the `Get-Process` command along with the Sort-Object cmdlet to sort the processes by CPU usage.

In this article, we will discuss how to get CPU usage by process and get CPU usage for the specific process using the PowerShell command.

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1 How to Get CPU Usage by Process

2 How to Get CPU usage for the specific process

3 Conclusion

How to Get CPU Usage by Process

Use the Get-Process cmdlet in PowerShell to get CPU usage by process. Here, is the PowerShell command to get CPU usage by process.

Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property CPU -Descending

In the above PowerShell script, the Get-Process command gets a list of all processes on the computer and pipes them to the Sort-Object cmdlet to sort by CPU usage in descending order.

The Get-Process cmdlet gets all the processes.

The Sort-Object cmdlet sorts a collection of objects by the Property specified as CPU.

The -Descending parameter specifies that the object should be sorted in descending order.

The output of the above PowerShell script to sort the CPU usage by process displays the ProcessName, CPU, ID, Handles, and Threads. CPU column will contain the percentage of CPU usage by process.

Get CPU Usage by process in PowerShell — Get CPU Usage by the process in PowerShell

You can get the top 10 CPU-utilizing processes in Windows using the PowerShell command as given below.

Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property CPU -Descending | Select-Object -First 10 | Format-Table -AutoSize

The above PowerShell command gets all the processes on the system, sorts them by CPU usage in descending order, and uses the Select-Object cmdlet to display the top 10 CPU-utilizing processes on the Windows system.

How to Get CPU usage for the specific process

To get CPU usage for the specific process, run the following command.

Get-Process -Name chrome | Select-Object -Property CPU

In the above PowerShell script, the Get-Process command gets CPU usage for the process named “Chrome“.

The output of the above script returns the name of the process and the percentage of CPU usage by the process.

PS C:\> Get-Process -Name chrome | Select-Object -Property CPU                                                                                    
        CPU
        ---
   3.109375
          1
     351.75
 882.453125
  10.421875
   62.78125
3111.953125

Cool Tip: How to get CPU usage in percentage using PowerShell!

Conclusion

I hope the above article on how to get CPU usage by the process using the PowerShell command Get-Process is helpful to you.

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