Monit

Monit
Developer(s)	Tildeslash Ltd
Stable release	5.34.0 / May 29, 2024; 5 months ago
Repository	bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit ;
Written in	C
Available in	English
Type	Process supervision
License	AGPL 3.0
Website	mmonit.com/monit/

Monit is a free, open-source process supervision tool for Unix and Linux. With Monit, system status can be viewed directly from the command line, or via the native HTTP(S) web server. Monit is able to do automatic maintenance, repair, and run meaningful causal actions in error situations.^[3] Monit rose to popularity with Ruby on Rails and the Mongrel web server, because a tool was needed that could manage the many identical Mongrel processes that needed to be run to support a scalable Ruby on Rails site, and Monit was fairly uniquely suited for the needs of the Ruby on Rails community.^[4] Many popular Rails sites have used Monit, including Twitter^[5] and scribd.^[6]

Monit can restart a process automatically if the process dies or monitor process characteristics, such as memory or CPU cycles, and alert by email^[7] or execute and action.^[8]

Additionally, M/Monit can monitor and manage distributed computer systems, M/Monit uses Monit as an agent and can manage and monitor. M/Monit is proprietary software.

References

^ "Monit Updates and Release Notes". Retrieved 18 June 2024.
^ "tildeslash / Monit". Bitbucket. Atlassian. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ Pott, Kyle (2007-08-01). "Monitor Ubuntu services with Monit". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
^ Ruby on Rails author talks about Monit and mongrel Archived 2011-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Sandofsky, Ben (2010-03-30). "Unicorn Power | Twitter Blogs". Engineering.twitter.com. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
^ stark (2007-05-13). "Scaling Scribd". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
^ "Monit Manual".
^ "Easy, proactive monitoring of processes, programs, files, directories, filesystems and hosts | Monit".

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[1] "Monit Updates and Release Notes". Retrieved 18 June 2024.

[2] "tildeslash / Monit". Bitbucket. Atlassian. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[3] Pott, Kyle (2007-08-01). "Monitor Ubuntu services with Monit". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2018-09-30.

[4] Ruby on Rails author talks about Monit and mongrel Archived 2011-04-24 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Sandofsky, Ben (2010-03-30). "Unicorn Power | Twitter Blogs". Engineering.twitter.com. Retrieved 2013-08-20.

[6] stark (2007-05-13). "Scaling Scribd". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 2013-08-20.

[7] "Monit Manual".

[8] "Easy, proactive monitoring of processes, programs, files, directories, filesystems and hosts | Monit".

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v t e Service management in Unix-like systems
Portable implementations	init Initng OpenRC runit
Operating-system-specific	Linux systemd Upstart macOS launchd SystemStarter Solaris Service Management Facility
Process supervision tools	daemontools monit runit