diff --git a/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.mod b/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.mod
index c79f821fde51..2b5b23f84d45 100644
--- a/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.mod
+++ b/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.mod
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/influxdata/influxdb-observability/otel2influx v0.5.8 // indirect
 	github.com/influxdata/line-protocol/v2 v2.2.1 // indirect
 	github.com/ionos-cloud/sdk-go/v6 v6.1.9 // indirect
+	github.com/ishleenk17/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/elasticprocessor v0.0.0-20240205053831-6d9a005cfe4b // indirect
 	github.com/jackc/chunkreader/v2 v2.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/jackc/pgconn v1.14.0 // indirect
 	github.com/jackc/pgio v1.0.0 // indirect
diff --git a/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.sum b/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.sum
index 3bf0ad9105ef..57eaa83147cb 100644
--- a/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.sum
+++ b/cmd/otelcontribcol/go.sum
@@ -975,6 +975,10 @@ github.com/influxdata/line-protocol/v2 v2.2.1 h1:EAPkqJ9Km4uAxtMRgUubJyqAr6zgWM0
 github.com/influxdata/line-protocol/v2 v2.2.1/go.mod h1:DmB3Cnh+3oxmG6LOBIxce4oaL4CPj3OmMPgvauXh+tM=
 github.com/ionos-cloud/sdk-go/v6 v6.1.9 h1:Iq3VIXzeEbc8EbButuACgfLMiY5TPVWUPNrF+Vsddo4=
 github.com/ionos-cloud/sdk-go/v6 v6.1.9/go.mod h1:EzEgRIDxBELvfoa/uBN0kOQaqovLjUWEB7iW4/Q+t4k=
+github.com/ishleenk17/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/elasticprocessor v0.0.0-20240203071249-1d18877c8eeb h1:De6AZyMQNMH+TKs4TCIt2d8Gl1EG0JxZ6ryTr26J7pg=
+github.com/ishleenk17/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/elasticprocessor v0.0.0-20240203071249-1d18877c8eeb/go.mod h1:EDhNj/4y/IGUH0EHt0zG9rNF/AyTxuTD3EgnEvc5l7k=
+github.com/ishleenk17/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/elasticprocessor v0.0.0-20240205053831-6d9a005cfe4b h1:iPnsUzbDkRGM+YW5WynoYrXSl6aeoy34DajfMI8O0ns=
+github.com/ishleenk17/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/elasticprocessor v0.0.0-20240205053831-6d9a005cfe4b/go.mod h1:EDhNj/4y/IGUH0EHt0zG9rNF/AyTxuTD3EgnEvc5l7k=
 github.com/jackc/chunkreader v1.0.0/go.mod h1:RT6O25fNZIuasFJRyZ4R/Y2BbhasbmZXF9QQ7T3kePo=
 github.com/jackc/chunkreader/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:odVSm741yZoC3dpHEUXIqA9tQRhFrgOHwnPIn9lDKlk=
 github.com/jackc/chunkreader/v2 v2.0.1 h1:i+RDz65UE+mmpjTfyz0MoVTnzeYxroil2G82ki7MGG8=
diff --git a/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/hostmetrics.go b/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/hostmetrics.go
index 7bf616502464..4666d9f51c71 100644
--- a/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/hostmetrics.go
+++ b/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/hostmetrics.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ var scraperToElasticDataset = map[string]string{
 	"memory":     "system.memory",
 	"network":    "system.network",
 	"paging":     "system.memory",
-	"processes":  "system.process",
+	"processes":  "system.process.summary",
 	"process":    "system.process",
 }
 
diff --git a/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/process.go b/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/process.go
index 3484b0882e7a..47b9a5f80936 100644
--- a/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/process.go
+++ b/processor/elasticprocessor/internal/hostmetrics/process.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 
 func addProcessMetrics(metrics pmetric.MetricSlice, dataset string) error {
 	var timestamp pcommon.Timestamp
-	var threads, memUsage, memVirtual int64
+	var threads, memUsage, memVirtual, fdOpen int64
 	var memUtil float64
 
 	for i := 0; i < metrics.Len(); i++ {
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ func addProcessMetrics(metrics pmetric.MetricSlice, dataset string) error {
 			dp := metric.Sum().DataPoints().At(0)
 			timestamp = dp.Timestamp()
 			memVirtual = dp.IntValue()
+		} else if metric.Name() == "process.open_file_descriptors" {
+			dp := metric.Sum().DataPoints().At(0)
+			timestamp = dp.Timestamp()
+			fdOpen = dp.IntValue()
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -58,6 +62,12 @@ func addProcessMetrics(metrics pmetric.MetricSlice, dataset string) error {
 			timestamp: timestamp,
 			intValue:  &memVirtual,
 		},
+		metric{
+			dataType:  Sum,
+			name:      "system.process.fd.open",
+			timestamp: timestamp,
+			intValue:  &fdOpen,
+		},
 	)
 
 	return nil