how to monitor status of active processes

How can I monitor the status of certain active processes?

Looks like you can since there is a summary list of active processes shown in the device info list.

I want to build alarms based on certain essential services going down.

ie.

Process Process Status Process Type
init runnable(2) application(4)
migration/0 runnable(2) application(4)
migration/1 runnable(2) application(4)
keventd runnable(2) application(4)
ksoftirqd/0 runnable(2) application(4)
ksoftirqd/1 runnable(2) application(4)
kswapd runnable(2) application(4)
kscand runnable(2) application(4)
bdflush runnable(2) application(4)
kupdated runnable(2) application(4)
mdrecoveryd runnable(2) application(4)
kjournald runnable(2) application(4