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Kill or revive a process based on system memory usage
Consider a system with limited memory, like a smallish VPS. Suppose there are a handful of processes that need to stay alive, and one process "P" that would be nice to have around, but is not ...
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Monitor DoS attack with snmp
Is there any way to monitor DoS attacks with SNMP or any other software which based on Linux and could monitor router / switches and alert when a DoS attack is observed?
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StartSSL certificate with monit
I'm trying to use a StartSSL (free) SSL certificate with monit.
I followed the wizard on startssl.com to generate first a private key, then a certificate. I then downloaded the ...
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nginx proxypass monit links
I'm trying to setup Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass.
Loading https://example.com/monit works, however the links within the page are to https://example.com/sshd ...
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Specify a mailserver hostname and tlsv1 in monit
[Edit: I answered the first half of my issue, so I'll edit this to address the second half.]
/etc/monit/monitrc looks like this:
set mailserver
smtp.server.net
port 587
username ...
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Monit: Customize alert message to include command output
I would like to customize the Monit's alert message, so that whenever I get an alert, the email also includes the output of a command like top, so that I will already know more details about what ...
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Monit won't start ar_sendmail
I've got monit set up and running. It monitors and will restart Apache and Mysql fine, but won't do the same for ar_sendmail.
If I start ar_sendmail, monit won't pick up that it's running even ...
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Sending mails with monit over Google Apps mailserver
I am trying to send notification mails using monit v5.1. I am using Google Apps as a mailserver, so I wanted to use their infrastructure for outgoing mails.
I have entered the following information ...
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Monit stops running on centos
How can you make sure that monit is always running?
At the moment it's silently falling over and leaving the server unmonitored.
Server is running on CentOS.
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Have trouble with monit (monit dead but subsys locked)
I installed monit on my centos 6/64bit and somethings wrong. Look at the shell :
[root@ND-1003 monit.d]# service monit start
Starting monit: monit: generated unique Monit id ...
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How to display all process matching a pattern in the monit web interface?
I am using monit to monitor all my processes which is matched using.
check process [name] matching [process name pattern]
Monit is able to match using the pattern and "monit procmatch [process name ...
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Monit: error log rate action
How can configure monit to email or alert me when the rate or error log spewing by apache goes beyond a threshold?
I need to get proactive alerts in case something goes wrong.
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What does monit consider to be memory usage?
Once can have monit monitor memory usage…
check system foo
if memory usage > 95% then alert
Does it use free RAM, or free -/+ buffers/cache? (or something else?)
# free -m
total ...
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Why can't I see the monit binary in the process list after starting it?
I have monit running and working (I set up a dummy warning that is getting sent), but I don't see any binary called "monit" in the process list. Furthermore if I sort the processes by newest process, ...
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Sending a test/example alert from monit?
I've configured monit tests and alerts — but I want to make sure that everything in my alert stack (outgoing email servers, sms email gateways…) is functioning properly. Is there a handy way to fire ...
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monit configuration for php-fpm
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
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Monit + Passenger (nginx) - Won't kill process
I have an odd bug with a rails app I've created, causing it (randomly, maybe once every couple days) to have all (or some instances) go to 100% CPU usage and stay there forever. This causes nginx to ...
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Monitor a long running process
I need to start a long running, memory/disk/cpu intensive process on Linux, and monitor it so I can :
check it terminates with a good status code,
collect stats (mem cpu disk every x minutes )
alert ...
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Monit - how to check loadavg only when no backup is running?
I've got Monit configuration with:
check system example.com
if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert
I want to get rid of messages every time backup is ...
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Simplifying monitrc (make it DRY)
Most of the monitrc examples I see are verbose, lots of repeated 5-10 line boilerplate checks. Is there any way to parametize this stuff?
I want something like:
ensure_rails 8080
ensure_php 8081
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Can monit be configured to never unmonitor/timeout a service?
Monit seems to give up restarting a service if it fails a few times, and unmonitors it. I can't find anything in the documentation about the specifics of when or why. In my environment, I want it to ...
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Making sense of Ubuntu Server Status Info
I'm trying to create a simple shell script to monitor my server. I plan to set up a CRON job to run it every five or 10 minutes.
Here's how it will work:
Run a number of linux commands e.g. iostat, ...
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Disable Monit alerts when PID changed
When you monitor a process with Monit by its pid, like :
check process blop with pidfile /.../blop.pid
start program = "..."
stop program = "..."
you get an alert when the pidfile is ...
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monit reporting “connection failure” when actually a “content failure”?
I have a monit rule which looks like this:
check host example.com with address example.com
if failed url http://example.com/status
content == "ok"
then alert
group example.com
But when ...
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why i am not able to access Gui panel at 2812 port
I followed this http://fosscasts.com/screencasts/6-System-Monitoring-With-Monit
set daemon 20
set logfile /var/log/monit.log
set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587
username "myemail" ...
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why configuring node.js application by monit restart the server every two minutes
I have configure monit by following lines but it is restarting the server after every two minutes what should i do ?
check host myapp1 with address myserverurl.net
start "/sbin/start myapp"
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Problem in configuring monit for node.js application
I am following this article http://wellconsidered.be/nodejs-with-upstart-and-monit
when i give this in config file ,i name it mystartupprocessmonit in conf.d folder
check host site-c.noort.be with ...
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monitoring nfs with monit
I'd like to monitor NFS mounts and the NFS server process using Monit.
On the server, I'd need a PID file, but I can't seem to find a way of getting that created with existing configuration files. ...
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Restarting thin with monit in capistrano deployment
I am able to monitor thin with monit, but when I restart it with monit through capistrano, it crashes.
I created a script to start thin with the yml:
chdir: /home/jack/apps/myapp/current
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Custom server monitoring: Monitoring number of specific files in specific directory
I have many server running on live. Each server has many application. Each application has directory like /etc/somedir1, /etc/somedir2 where in each of that directory has many .html files. The ...
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Running monit on Suse SLED 10
Can anyone tell me how to get monit to start at boot on Suse SLED 10 ?
Suse seems to do services different than everyone else.
I found a link to a monit init file, but I don't think it will work ...
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cacti + nagios + monit =?
Currently I've got this trio configured, but I would like to have one solution, because configuring those 3 separately is a head ache time to time. First add service to monit, then to nagios and after ...
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Monit having trouble determining if the Bitcoin daemon is running
I'm setting up Monit to monitor the Bitcoin daemon to make sure it runs 24/7 and restarts it if something goes wrong. The Bitcoin binary is at /usr/local/bin/bitcoind, and the data directory is at ...
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Monit process aliasing
I have Monit checking a process whose name is just "python", but would like a more informative name (e.g. "webapp") in status, emails, etc. Is there any way to declare an alias, or would I have to ...
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Monit connection test frequency
I want to have Monit check a web application's health, running a cheap/trivial check frequently and an expensive/nontrivial check less frequently (e.g. 1/5 minutes). How can I tell it to check a given ...
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Monit catch run-away process
There are examples for how to make Monit detect a service going amok and use too much RAM. But what if the service forks a program and the child takes too much RAM?
Or put another way, how can I make ...
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monit over apache reverse proxy and remote proxy to ssl destination host
I need to setup monit to communicate over a proxy to a mmonit host with ssl:
mmonit => http://mmonit.com/
monit => http://mmonit.com/monit/
the mmonit host only accepts https requests with HTTP ...
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Change postfix logging behavior to omit connections from localhost due to monit
I have a fairly standard postfix installation which is monitored using monit. Monit checks the connection every so often and when it does, the connection from localhost is somewhat polluting my log ...
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mysql monitoring with monit
can someone please steer me in the right direction. I'm completely new to Monit, set it up, everything working fine, but I'm having a problem with mysql.
This is the set up in my conf file:
check ...
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monit: check process without pidfile
I'm looking for a way to kill all processes with a given name that have been running for more than X amount of time. I spawn many instances of this particular executable, and sometimes it goes into a ...
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Puppet defined resource - selective parameterization?
I'm currently banging my head trying to find the "best way" to achieve this type of granularity for puppet: I have a server running memcached in testing environment and another one running for the ...
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Monit is restarting apache2, should I fix the monit config, or the server config?
Monit is restarting apache2 frequently, based on the totalmem > 200m test in my apache2 stanza. I'm not sure that I actually have a problem, or if I should increase the totalmem test in my monit ...
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Hot reloading monit configs?
Is there a way to hot-reload monit config files? or even restart monit with a single line?
Our deploy scripts currently kill & restart monit - but that triggers some alerts. Any way around this?
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Monitoring hanging processes
I need to monitor hanging processes on the output of ps -ef | grem GMC...
What's the best way to do this without running this command manually and being stuck in front of a command line all day? I'd ...
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How to disable Monit instance start/stop alerts?
Monit sends an alert every time the monit daemon is stopped or started. This is obnoxious and not useful information.
According to the docs, I set:
set alert user@mycompany.com but not on { ...
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after installing monit when i do monit status myproc i get “error connecting to the monit daemon”
after installing monit when i do monit status myproc i get "error connecting to the monit daemon"
I read somewhere that
The status command won't work in the
case that monit is running indaemon
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With Monit, how do I restart a process when a directory timestamp check fails?
In my /etc/monit/monitrc I have the following lines:
check process foo_server with pidfile /var/run/bwam_server.pid
start program = "/Users/foo/foo_server.sh start"
stop program = ...
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Is there a way to test an individual Monit control file?
I've created a Monit control file, but it doesn't seem to be working. It would be nice to have a way to test Monitor control files other than by just letting them run and seeing if they work. Anyone ...
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Kill runaway Phusion Passenger child processes with monit?
Is there any way to monitor and kill Phusion child processes that are using too much memory or cpu with monit?
There are many examples for Apache, but since Phusion runs in its own process, runaway ...
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Monit can't detect MySQL, but I can
Monit is configured to watch MySQL on localhost at port 3306.
check process mysqld with pidfile /var/lib/mysql/li175-241.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
stop program = ...
