Example Monit Configuration with Mongrel
September 15th, 2007 by pyratMonit is great for keeping your services online. I use them for keeping my collection of slices online when I am asleep.
The example monitrc is a great starting point of listing the services which you should be monitoring.
One thing: monit can have its own little http server which runs internally. This is off in the example config as you have to explicitly enable it.
I hope to release a monit config generator gem in the near future which makes this a lot quicker.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
[…] 10. Monit is a great tool for your production servers. After it is properly configured it just keeps stuff up for you and can warn you if you experience high load. It also means that if your mongrels crash for any reason you can sleep soundly in the knowledge that they will be started for you. There is an example monit configuration which you can start from if you like. […]