OxMgr is a lightweight process manager for supervising long-running services across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
It is designed as an alternative to PM2, but is language-agnostic, so it can manage executables and commands from environments such as Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, and shell scripts. The software focuses on service supervision, repeatable configuration-driven workflows, and operational tooling for monitoring and maintaining background processes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports start, stop, restart, reload, and deletion of managed processes.
- Offers named services and namespaces for organising workloads.
- Includes restart policies such as always, on-failure, and never.
- Provides health checks with automatic restart after repeated failures.
- Supports file watching with ignore patterns and restart debouncing.
- Includes log tailing, log rotation, and separate stdout and stderr logs per process.
- Offers readiness-aware reloads using health checks.
- Supports Git pull and webhook-driven update workflows.
- Includes an interactive terminal UI with live search, filters, and sort controls.
- Can import and export service bundles with the .oxpkg format.
- Supports service installation for systemd, launchd, and Windows Task Scheduler.
- Provides compatibility with PM2 ecosystem configuration files.
Website: github.com/Vladimir-Urik/OxMgr
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Developer: Vladimír Urík
License: MIT License
OxMgr is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Overitall | Control Procfile services and explore logs from one terminal |
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