Riak pid - where is it and is one created

Question

I installed the riak ubuntu package. Is there a riak.pid? My node is running but nothing on the machine. I need for monit. There is a /var/run/riak dir but no pid.

Answer 1

The answer is: there isn't one.

That being said, a post to our mailing list may help you:

http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-October/006064.html

check process riak matching "/path/to/riak/erts-5.7.5/bin/beam"
   group riak
   start program = "/path/to/riak/bin/riak start"
   if failed host localhost port 8098
        protocol HTTP request "/" then alert

(Note you will need to change the erlang version to the one you are currently using)