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Exec when service is ok with monit
I need to run a shell script if a service is ok with monit, to link to my other monitoring system (nagios).
Basically what I need to achieve is to make monit send an alert when a service was ...
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Passively monitor IO wait spike on process level
We use munin and monit to keep track of general stats about our vps, in last a couple of weeks, we have been running into issues where random IO wait spike is killing our server performance.
Since ...
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Start resque with monit default config
I am trying to start resque with Monit and monitor it. I modified the default config so it will look for my user ruby etc, but monit wont even write to its log that its starting it.
check process ...
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Load balance M/Monit collector
I am new to Monit monitoring system. Can we load balance mmonit collector (two instances) to avoid single point failure.
I mean if monit collector (instance) is down, whole monitoring system will be ...
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How to use monit to make sure only one instance of process is running
I have ruby daemons running. Once in a while we'll accidentally start up a second instance of it, which causes race conditions.
Can I use Monit to detect if multiple instances of 'my_ruby_daemon' is ...
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Monit server went down
One of our developers needs some sort of notification in order to know whether the application is running smoothly or not.And We already decided that we will implement monit in order to get this ...
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Monit http-based API
I'm just wondering whether monit has an API, which we could poll-regularly (perhaps something that is http-based) ?
It would be very useful to create an integrated monitoring solution across multiple ...
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Monit versus Nagios
Does nagios offer any additional functionality when compared to monit?
This answer states that monit is a clumsy tool for situational awareness, which is the reason I'm asking the question.
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What's the point of using runit in combination with monit?
I see a lot of people using monit in combination with runit. Isn't that redundant? What is the point of using runit as well? Is it because it's more reliable when dealing with services (as it doesn't ...
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How to find the .pid file for a given process
I'm setting up monit and want to monitor a given python application. Monit does this by looking at the .pid files for processes, but I don't know where this would be.
I also tried creating my own ...
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Monit failed to restart apache
Apache failed and Monit did not restart it as expected. The error in monit's log is:
Error opening Monit id file '/root/.monit.id' for writing-Cannot allocate memory
The problem is that Apache went ...
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Use monit to monitor apache2 subprocesses
I am currently using Monit to monitor Apache and restart it if its memory usage is too high. However, I'd also like to be able to monitor the individual apache2 subprocesses that are spawned, and ...
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Can't get Monit to work
I am trying to configure Monit on my local machine to get a taste at how it works, but I have some issues.
What I am trying to do is to get any evidence that Monit is up and running correctly and is ...
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how to monitor select processes on centos 5.x host?
I would like to monitor a select group of processes, vmware vm's, running on my centos 6 host. "top" gives me most of what I want in that I can use -p to specify only those processes and -c to get ...
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Monit checking URL follow redirects
I am looking to use monit to keep an eye on my site. I want it to treat it the site like an external user so am testing the url but it doesn't seem to follow redirects. The content check is being ...
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Monit lists Apache as Not Monitored
I've just installed and configured monit according to the monit documentation. All services apart from Apache are listed as Running, but Apache says Not Monitored.
The relevant lines in monit's ...
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Repeat monit alerts
How can I have monit continue to alert me on an interval until the condition has been fixed? Here's an example config:
check filesystem datafs with path /dev/sda1
if space usage > 80% for 5 times ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 = ...
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Problem to monitor ssh service with M / Monit
In the office we have a server M / Monit to monitor all servers. In the last few days, on some servers can not monitor the ssh service.
All servers have the same configuration to monitor the service ...
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Monit not starting after OS upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Iv recently upgraded the version of Ubuntu from 9.04 to 10.04LTS (through 9.10) and now Monit won't start. Doing a sudo /etc/init.d/monit syntax says the syntax is ok. If I run the command sudo ...
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How do I setup a monit script to check if a directory exists and create it if it doesn't
In the monit documentation I can see there is a check directory command but I can't see any examples of how to use it to see if the directory exists and if it doesn't to create the directory using the ...
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Monitoring thin with monit
I have been struggling to get monit to monitor my thin cluster for some time now. I am using 3 thin instances. These are my monit and thin config files:
/etc/thin/vocab.yml:
pid: tmp/pids/thin.pid
...
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Using monit for a process that doesn't background/run as a daemon
I"m using montit for other processes I need to run, but I have a process which doesn't run as a daemon, and I can't figure out how to monitor it with monit
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Recommendations for Monitoring services [closed]
I would like to install a monitoring services (Monit or others) on my web server and am looking for recommendation.
I have no idea which is good, and what parameters which I should evaluate on, and ...
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How can I trigger a Monit event when a service comes back up?
Given a config like this:
check host web1 address web1
if failed host web1 port 80 protocol http
then exec "/usr/local/bin/failover.sh -h web2"
Can I detect if web1 has returned from failed ...
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Catching unresponsive / high load mysql, perhaps with monit?
I'm having intermittent occurrences of mysql causing high load on the machine, making the web app unavailable. I'm using monit to monitor it, but it doesn't catch the issue, apparently because it can ...
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Monitoring mongrel with monit
I wrote a monit.d file for mongrels which works in this version:
check process redmine with pidfile /home/redmine/service/redmine.pid
group webservice
start program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails start ...
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How to check the result of a script with monit?
Is there a way to check the result of a script with monit? For example a script returns 0 means ok, but 1 means failed. The idea is to call the script from monit on the local machine directly and ...
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vsftpd does not create pid file required for monit
I want to monitor vsftpd server from monit on CentOS 5.4 but somehow vsftpd does not create pid file in /var/run (nor in any other place).
Is this behavior normal for this distro?
How should I ...
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How to monitor passenger with monit
I want to set up monit to monitor passenger but everything I've found so far has basically said just monitor your website using monit. If possible I'd like to monitor passenger directly so I have more ...
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Start monit with a stopped service
Is it possible to have an entry for a service in monit where
the service is not started on system startup and on monit startup
and monit displays it's status
and only starts or stops it, when I ...
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Monit doesn't pick up httpd process after reset
I've installed Munin and Monit on one of my servers running CentOS 5. Everything is working well, logging and reporting info, except for when the httpd process is restarted. I have Monit set to ...
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What is the best way to monitor a production server?
We are running two production servers with Apache 2 and MySQL. I am looking for a reliable way of monitoring our load, stability and uptime.
I have come across monit, but are there better ...
