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title: "Processes"
description: "Watch and manage the services started by a cloud session's environment."
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# Processes

The **Processes** tab shows the long-running services configured by a cloud session's environment.
Use it to watch a development server, database, worker, or other service while you work.

![The Processes tab showing live output from services started by the session's environment](/images/processes-panel.png)

## Watch process output

Select **Processes** in the tool panel toolbar at the top of the session. Each configured process
has its own tab with live output and scrollback. Select a tab to switch services, or drag tabs to
reorder them.

A green dot means a process is active. Configured commands are supervised. If a command exits or
crashes on its own, Indent restarts it one second later.

Close a process tab to intentionally stop that process. An intentional stop suppresses its restart
for the current session. The process stays in the environment configuration and starts again in
future sessions.

> **Note**
>
> The panel shows services configured by the environment. It does not list every operating-system
> process, and it cannot start an ad hoc process. Use the [Terminal](/working-locally/terminal) for
> other commands.

## Configure processes

Open [**Settings → Environments**](https://app.indent.com/settings/environments), select an
environment, and open **Configure**. Under **Processes**, add a unique name and the command to run.
For example:

| Name  | Command             |
| ----- | ------------------- |
| `web` | `pnpm dev`          |
| `api` | `pnpm dev:api`      |
| `db`  | `docker compose up` |

Processes start in `/workspace` when a session begins. Changes apply to new sessions that use the
environment.

If no services are configured, the tab shows **No processes running**.

Source: https://docs.indent.com/cloud-sessions/processes/index.mdx