diff --git a/.chloggen/chan-tim_autoDiscovery.yaml b/.chloggen/chan-tim_autoDiscovery.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..36ef5884fa18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/chan-tim_autoDiscovery.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: sumologicexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: adding new products for auto discovery
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [35622]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: []
diff --git a/extension/sumologicextension/extension.go b/extension/sumologicextension/extension.go
index a79de504693f..f982f74be616 100644
--- a/extension/sumologicextension/extension.go
+++ b/extension/sumologicextension/extension.go
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/Showmax/go-fqdn"
 	"github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4"
-	ps "github.com/mitchellh/go-ps"
+
+	"github.com/shirou/gopsutil/process"
 	"github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4/host"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttp"
@@ -699,7 +700,7 @@ var sumoAppProcesses = map[string]string{
 	"apache":                "apache",
 	"apache2":               "apache",
 	"httpd":                 "apache",
-	"docker":                "docker",
+	"docker":                "docker", // docker cli
 	"elasticsearch":         "elasticsearch",
 	"mysql-server":          "mysql",
 	"mysqld":                "mysql",
@@ -710,21 +711,63 @@ var sumoAppProcesses = map[string]string{
 	"redis":                 "redis",
 	"tomcat":                "tomcat",
 	"kafka-server-start.sh": "kafka", // Need to test this, most common shell wrapper.
+	"redis-server":          "redis",
+	"mongod":                "mongodb",
+	"cassandra":             "cassandra",
+	"jmx":                   "jmx",
+	"activemq":              "activemq",
+	"memcached":             "memcached",
+	"haproxy":               "haproxy",
+	"dockerd":               "docker-ce", // docker engine, for when process runs natively
+	"com.docker.backend":    "docker-ce", // docker daemon runs on a VM in Docker Desktop, process doesn't show on mac
+	"sqlservr":              "mssql",     // linux SQL Server process
 }
 
 func filteredProcessList() ([]string, error) {
 	var pl []string
 
-	p, err := ps.Processes()
+	processes, err := process.Processes()
 	if err != nil {
 		return pl, err
 	}
 
-	for _, v := range p {
-		e := strings.ToLower(v.Executable())
+	for _, v := range processes {
+		// Get the process executable name
+		e, err := v.Name()
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		e = strings.ToLower(e)
+
 		if a, i := sumoAppProcesses[e]; i {
 			pl = append(pl, a)
 		}
+
+		// handling for Docker Desktop
+		if e == "com.docker.backend" {
+			pl = append(pl, "docker-ce")
+		}
+
+		// handling for Java background processes
+		if e == "java" {
+			cmdline, err := v.Cmdline()
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if strings.Contains(cmdline, "org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon") {
+				pl = append(pl, "cassandra")
+			}
+
+			if strings.Contains(cmdline, "com.sun.management.jmxremote") {
+				pl = append(pl, "jmx")
+			}
+
+			if strings.Contains(cmdline, "activemq.jar") {
+				pl = append(pl, "activemq")
+			}
+		}
+
 	}
 
 	return pl, nil
diff --git a/extension/sumologicextension/go.mod b/extension/sumologicextension/go.mod
index 01a434110d06..d83efa593b5d 100644
--- a/extension/sumologicextension/go.mod
+++ b/extension/sumologicextension/go.mod
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ go 1.21.0
 require (
 	github.com/Showmax/go-fqdn v1.0.0
 	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.3.0
-	github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0
+	github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible
 	github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 v4.24.6
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component v0.106.1
diff --git a/extension/sumologicextension/go.sum b/extension/sumologicextension/go.sum
index 446f808306b7..8dead5f0ea6c 100644
--- a/extension/sumologicextension/go.sum
+++ b/extension/sumologicextension/go.sum
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ github.com/lufia/plan9stats v0.0.0-20211012122336-39d0f177ccd0 h1:6E+4a0GO5zZEnZ
 github.com/lufia/plan9stats v0.0.0-20211012122336-39d0f177ccd0/go.mod h1:zJYVVT2jmtg6P3p1VtQj7WsuWi/y4VnjVBn7F8KPB3I=
 github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0 h1:vpKXTN4ewci03Vljg/q9QvCGUDttBOGBIa15WveJJGw=
 github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0/go.mod h1:qLl+cE2AmVv+CoeAwDPye/v+N2HKCj9FbZEVFJRxO9s=
-github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0 h1:i6ampVEEF4wQFF+bkYfwYgY+F/uYJDktmvLPf7qIgjc=
-github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0/go.mod h1:J4lOc8z8yJs6vUwklHw2XEIiT4z4C40KtWVN3nvg8Pg=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2 h1:G2LzWKi524PWgd3mLHV8Y5k7s6XUvT0Gef6zxSIeXaQ=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2/go.mod h1:mSTlrgnPZtwu0c4WaC2kGObEpuNDbx0jmZXqmk4esnw=
 github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd h1:TRLaZ9cD/w8PVh93nsPXa1VrQ6jlwL5oN8l14QlcNfg=
@@ -78,6 +76,8 @@ github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.10.0 h1:TMyTOH3F/DB16zRVcYyreMH6GnZZrwQVAoYjR
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.10.0/go.mod h1:UQnix2H7Ngw/k4C5ijL5+65zddjncjaFoBhdsK/akog=
 github.com/rs/cors v1.11.0 h1:0B9GE/r9Bc2UxRMMtymBkHTenPkHDv0CW4Y98GBY+po=
 github.com/rs/cors v1.11.0/go.mod h1:XyqrcTp5zjWr1wsJ8PIRZssZ8b/WMcMf71DJnit4EMU=
+github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible h1:+1+c1VGhc88SSonWP6foOcLhvnKlUeu/erjjvaPEYiI=
+github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible/go.mod h1:5b4v6he4MtMOwMlS0TUMTu2PcXUg8+E1lC7eC3UO/RA=
 github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 v4.24.6 h1:9qqCSYF2pgOU+t+NgJtp7Co5+5mHF/HyKBUckySQL64=
 github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 v4.24.6/go.mod h1:aoebb2vxetJ/yIDZISmduFvVNPHqXQ9SEJwRXxkf0RA=
 github.com/shoenig/go-m1cpu v0.1.6 h1:nxdKQNcEB6vzgA2E2bvzKIYRuNj7XNJ4S/aRSwKzFtM=