monit

Purpose

Monitor services, system processes, etc. and restart processes in case they exited. Additionally alerting the user via mail.

Configuration

Config-File: /etc/monit/monitrc

Options: monit

There are already some services pre-configured. This example shows how to monito smarthome based on pid file.

Example:

check process smarthome with pidfile /usr/smarthome/var/run/smarthome.pid
 start program "/bin/systemctl start smarthome"
 stop program "/bin/systemctl start smarthome"
 restart program "/bin/systemctl restart smarthome"
 if 20 restarts within 45 cycles then unmonitor

Restart systemctl restart monit