Monit
Monit is a utility
for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories and
filesystems on a Unix system. Monit
conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute
meaningful causal actions in error situations. For example, Monit can
start a process if it does not run, restart a process if it does
not respond and stop a process if it uses too much resources. Monit can
also monitor files, directories and filesystems for
changes, such as timestamps changes, checksum changes or size
changes.
Monit is controlled via an easy to configure control file
based on a free-format, token-oriented syntax. Monit logs to syslog or
to its own log file and notifies you about error conditions via
customizable alert messages. Monit can perform various TCP/IP
network checks, protocol checks and can utilize SSL for such
checks. Monit provides a http(s) interface
and you may use a browser to access the Monit program.
Monit is particular useful for monitoring daemon processes,
such as those started at system boot time from /etc/init.d/. For
instance mail servers, print servers, database servers, application
servers, http servers and sshd.
Features include:
- Monitoring processes
- Monitoring files
- Monitoring directories
- Monitoring devices
- Remote host monitoring - first and foremost
monit is an utility for monitoring and mending services on localhost,
but if a service depends on a remote service, e.g. a database server or
an application server, it can be useful to test the remote host as well
- Protocol testing
- Web interface
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