Desktop Application Usage Tracking

Kabeen allows tracking native Windows and MacOS applications

Kabeen user agents collect application navigation from the Windows and macOS windowing system. All these applications, when displayed on the user's screen, are linked to a process that needs to be described in your application settings in the Kabeen inventory.

Prerequisites

  • Kabeen user agents must be deployed and functional on workstations
  • Supervised applications must be able to display on the user's workstation: It is not possible to supervise a background application (example: EDR/XDR Agent)

Configure Native Application Tracking

  1. From your application inventory, click on the application to configure
  2. Click the Settings icon (⚙️) at the top right of the page
  3. Navigate to the Usage section

In the Native Application Usage Tracking section: Enter the Name of the application to track as it appears in the application's executable description on the workstation.

Identify an Application's Description

To retrieve the description of an application running on a workstation, you can do it in two ways:

  • From the application's executable file properties, a Description field is available
  • When the application is running on the workstation, Task Manager displays the Description (not the file name) of each application (be careful not to keep the "(32-bit)" annotations)

In Kabeen, this name is not case-sensitive.

Some examples:

  • chatgpt for a locally installed ChatGPT application
  • Microsoft Excel (not excel.exe)
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro (not acrobat.exe)

Add Multiple Clients for the Same Application

  1. Click Add additional name
  2. Repeat the configuration for each name
  3. All "clients" will be aggregated in the application statistics