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 <div class="alert alert-warning">You can view your ECS Fargate processes in Datadog. To see their relationship to ECS Fargate containers, use the Datadog Agent v7.50.0 or later.</div>
 
-You can monitor processes in ECS Fargate in Datadog by using the [Live Processes page][56]. To enable process collection, add the [`PidMode` parameter][57] in the Task Definition and set it to `task` as follows:
+You can monitor processes in ECS Fargate in Datadog by using the [Live Processes page][56]. To enable process monitoring in ECS Fargate, set the `DD_PROCESS_AGENT_PROCESS_COLLECTION_ENABLED` environment variable to `true` in the Datadog Agent container definition within the task definition:
+
+```
+{
+    "name": "DD_PROCESS_AGENT_PROCESS_COLLECTION_ENABLED",
+    "value": "true"
+}
+```
+
+Then add the [`PidMode` parameter][57] in the Task Definition and set it to `task` as follows:
 
 ```text
 "pidMode": "task"