Monit
Process supervision and self-healing system monitoring
Monit is a small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. It conducts automatic maintenance and repair, can restart failed processes, and alerts on error conditions.
Key features
- Process supervision
- Automatic restart of failed services
- File and filesystem checks
- Email alerting
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Extremely lightweight
- Self-healing actions
Trade-offs
- Single-host focus
- Basic web UI
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