Typical lines consists of a services or global options in a free-format, token-oriented syntax. Syntax of the configuration file is using monit’s own Domain Specific Language (DSL). The monitrc file must have permissions no higher than 0700, else monit would throw an error and fail. This can be overridden by specifying UID, GID in the start directive The Configuration File Though if you run monit as a root, any processes that get started by monit will start as root. Monit needs to runs as root to process certain tests such as Disk I/O reporting. As a daemon, it runs in sleep and wake cycles endlessly and processes the directives in the configuration file Monit starts and will detach itself from the terminal and run as a background process. Once installed, you can begin using monit to watch over your VPS Running MonitĪll the configuration information for monit is located at the ~/.monitrc (or at /etc/monitrc). Untar the binary and copy the following filesĬp bin/monit /usr/local/bin/ # Or to a folder in your pathįinally, you can also compile them from source from the bitbucket repo – You can also install them directly as binaries, by downloading the appropriate version from Monit can be easily installed on most distributions, through the default package managers. Monit’s server status screenshot (from monit’s homepage) Installation Monit also comes bundled with a lightweight HTTP server which provides server status. Finally, Monit can check if remote systems are connected – check if SSH is running on a remote server. Watch how your system is performing in terms of CPU load, memory usage etc. Keep track of if a program or script is functioning as expected at regular intervals. It looks over files, directories – check if a file has been modified (I am looking at you wp-config.php). Monit monitors processes – check if your daemons are running. Supporting a wide swathe of platforms (except Windows), you can install Monit on BSD/Linux and even on your Mac. is an open source utility that installs on your server and keeps a constant lookout for performance and takes necessary action based on pre-set conditions. This week we are going to install monit – a service monitoring app that watches over your server and when something is wrong, it tries to fix it rather than just letting you react to an alert. As you may have observed, server uptime and application availability is a theme I keep alluding to in my blog posts.
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