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Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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How to monit disk I/O with monit?

Currently I'm using M/Monit to monitor a lot of instances at once. But Iwould also like to know if anyone tried to monitor Disk I/O with monit? I don't have any good knowledge about disks, so if someone could point me to the right direction or share…
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upstart script for logstash, writing the pid file that deals with the fork

I am using the example upstart script for logstash but am having trouble writing a pid file for monit to use at /var/run/logstash.pid When i use "echo $$ > /var/run/logstash.pid" it writes the wrong pid value to file, I think its often the value…
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Monit errors when running "check program" for custom script

I am getting syntax errors when I try to check the exit status of a bash script using monit's "check program". If I run the bash script manually, it doesn't error. But if I do monit reload with my monit check program in the config, monit gives me…
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Monit fails to start process

I've written a scrip that works fine to start and stop a server. #!/bin/bash PID_FILE='/var/run/rserve.pid' start() { touch $PID_FILE eval "/usr/bin/R CMD Rserve" PID=$(ps aux | grep Rserve | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}') …
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Monitoring resque with monit with RVM

I previously had Monit monitoring resque with the following Monit script check process resque_worker_production_QUEUE with pidfile /var/tmp/resque_production.pid start program = "/usr/bin/env HOME=/home/eg RACK_ENV=production…
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Monit will not stop script with kill command

I am using monit to monitor several process. These process include passenger instances and a daemon I wrote to generate pidfiles for the passenger instance. Monit will start these process no problem. It will not stop them. The following is the Monit…
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MySQL restarting every 30 minutes on Ubuntu 11.04

I'm having an issue where MySQL 5.1.54 is restarting every 30 minutes on Ubuntu 11.04. When this occurs, the following appears in the MySQL log: 111030 12:01:52 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown 111030 12:01:52 [Note] Event Scheduler:…
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running delayed_job under monit with ubuntu

I'm struggling to get delayed_job working under rails 3.0.9 (ruby 1.9.2). The only way I have succeeded to run is to tape manualy the command rake jobs:work. But I want that to be automatically started when the rails application is starting. I have…
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Running monit as a restricted user and making it watch a process that needs root privileges

I have a specific script written in Ruby that needs root privileges. Most of the other processes don't need that and so were easy to setup in Monit. Not this one. The server needs to listen at 386, and this port is only available for root. I won't…
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How do I use Monit to keep an R script running?

I have an R script that I want to have running continuously on Ubuntu 10.10. I'm trying to setup Monit to ensure that it doesn't go down. As the script starts, it creates a pid file with the lines: pid <- max(system("pgrep -x R", intern =…
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rvm monit delayed_job

I am trying to run delayed_job using monit, but its failing to run as rvm's paths (local rvm installation per user basis) are not available to the command. My application is a rails2 app with bundler. Monit is not able to find bundler. Does anyone…
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How to erb'up a monitrc configuration file

Below is my delayed_job monitrc file, i wanted to use it as an erb template so that i can dynamically set the RAILS_ENV variable. Does anyone know how to do it? set daemon 120 check process delayed_job with pidfile…
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Problems installing OpenMediaVault 5 on Raspberry Pi 1

BTW, I am trying to install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi 1, however, whenever I try and install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi 1, I get problems with the monit package, the FastCGI Process Manager and the openmediavault package too. Here is…
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Monit on apache server : why monit log " 'apache' error -- unknown resource ID: [5]" on /var/log/monit

We are monitoring several servers with Monit. We are using the version 5.25.1. Some are dedicated apache servers. The monitoring is ok. But the log of monit (/var/log/monit) is like this : [CET Mar 18 03:12:03] info : Starting Monit 5.25.1…
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Is there a way to stop monit from sending monitor and unmonitor email messages

I've recently started using Monit to monitor some production machines. And it does this well. But the annoying issue I have is that part of the routine is to restart the servers once a day on a rotating basis and each of those restarts generates a…
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