Monit

Developer(s)| Tildeslash Ltd
Stable release|

5.34.0 / May 29, 2024; 12 months ago (2024-05-29)[1]

Repository|

* bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit

Written in| C[2]
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.

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## References

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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".

## External links

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* Official website
* Monit project page at Bitbucket
* Gentoo wiki: Monit

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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

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