The Redis startup script is supposed to create a pid file at startup, but I've confirmed all the settings I can find, and no pid file is ever created. I installed redis by: $ yum install redis $...

I'm new to Monit and trying to understand if it offers a way to handle multiple processes of the same name where the PIDs are unknown. My ideal Monit behaviour would be: Watch every process with...

I use Monit 5.27.2 and MariaDB 10.5.15 on my Debian 11 servers. My servers are set up in Multi-Source MariaDB Replication. Sometimes, replication stops and I am not notified. I have not seen anywhe...

I have a daemon which runs via the usual init.d/service scripts. I have monit running which ensures these daemons are restarted if they crash. I have a request that 'service foo stop' should stop...

I have been trying for hours to configure monit so I can access it remotely from a web browser from http://:2812 but it always times out. I have Nexus running on the same instance at http::8081 so ...

I'm trying to install monit on linux. I ran the following commands : wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.5.tar.gz tar zxvf monit-5.5.tar.gz cd monit-5.5 ./configure and when i try : mak...

So I have the following in my monitrc file: check process apache with pidfile /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid group apache start program = "/etc/init.d/httpd start" stop program = "/etc/init.d/ht...

I want to try to monitor postfix queue with monit. I have taken a example from people of Stackoverflow. My version of monit is the latest This is Monit version 5.10 In /etc/monit.d I have postfix...

error: invalid action action= restart monit Server Info Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS monit: Installed: 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.1

I've been using monit for a little while, but I want to alarm if a file exists. This is the opposite use case from the main documentation. Here's the doc says: IF [DOES] NOT EXIST [[<X>] &l...

I'm struggling to find a monit config for php-fpm that works. This is what I've tried: ### Monitoring php-fpm: the parent process. check process php-fpm with pidfile /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid ...

I find debugging monit to be a major pain. Monit's shell environment basically has nothing in it (no paths or other environment variables). Also, there are no log file that I can find. The problem...

I installed monit and tried to check the status using below command. monit status But end up with below error. monit: error connecting to the monit daemon How can I fix this?

I am fairly new to monit and I was wondering if this script is enough to restart a crashed program lets say program1 is the name of the program. check process program1 matching "program1" start pr...

I have an Opsworks stack with a Node.js Layer and Node.js Application. I'm wondering if anyone knows where on an ubuntu 14.04LTS instance the console logs from my application are being printed to. ...

I have the following configuration - check host qbox_logstash_1 with address blah.mysite.com group qbox if failed host blah.mysite.com port 443 type TCPSSL protocol https http headers [ A...

I'm trying to monitor my FPM daemon with Monit, and I'm assuming that the following is not the best technique due to respawning and the PID changing? check process php5-fpm with pidfile "/var/run/...

Are there any examples on the web of how to monitor delayed_job with Monit? Everything I can find uses God, but I refuse to use God since long running processes in Ruby generally suck. (The most ...

Our sysadmin recently switched to using monit, and so now when I want to restart a service, I'm supposed to use "monit restart <servicename>" instead of "/etc/init.d/<servicename> restart". ...

Summary How can I combine multiple checks in Monit? I want to check against process activity and file content/timestamp. Long and boring explanation I'm working on a Monit daemon for keeping m...

I would like to handle a kind of chain action in monit. check for a process and alert immediately. restart process after a num of cycles. My tries (so far): check process myprocess with pidfil...

I'm trying to set up Monit for Sidekiq. Here's what I have so far for my config file: check process sidekiq_site with pidfile /var/www/site/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid start program = "bundle exec sid...

Any ideas why monit will not monitor mysql in this setup??? I've gone through everything I can find here to solve the problem to no avail. These are my versions: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Descriptio...

I have a program that using phantomjs. There should be only a instance for the program and there is no program using Phantomjs. But sometimes Phantomjs are launched several instances sametime. Pr...

I am trying to use monit on my postgres. My monit configuration file is check process postgresql with pidfile /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/postmaster.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/postg...