Monit
Encyclopedia
monit is a free, open source
process supervision
tool for Unix
and Linux
. With monit, system status can be viewed directly from the command line, or via the native HTTP(S) web server
. Monit rose to popularity with Ruby on Rails
and the Mongrel web server, because a tool was needed that could manage the many identical mongrel processes that needed to be run to support a scalable Ruby on Rails site, and monit was fairly uniquely suited for the needs of the Ruby on Rails community.
Monit is licensed under the GPL and is written in C
.
Many popular Rails sites have used "monit", including: twitter
and scribd
.
M/Monit, a purchased software distributed by the creators of monit (Tildeslash LTD) expands upon the capabilities of monit, providing multi-host monitoring and analysis from within one web interface.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
process supervision
Process Supervision
Process supervision is a form of operating system service management in which some master process remains the parent of the service processes.-Benefits:Benefits include:* Ability to restart services which have failed...
tool for Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. With monit, system status can be viewed directly from the command line, or via the native HTTP(S) web server
Web server
Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....
. Monit rose to popularity with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
and the Mongrel web server, because a tool was needed that could manage the many identical mongrel processes that needed to be run to support a scalable Ruby on Rails site, and monit was fairly uniquely suited for the needs of the Ruby on Rails community.
Monit is licensed under the GPL and is written in C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
.
Many popular Rails sites have used "monit", including: twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and scribd
Scribd
Scribd is a Web 2.0 based document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. Scribd was founded by Trip Adler, Tikhon Bernstam, and Jared Friedman in 2006...
.
M/Monit, a purchased software distributed by the creators of monit (Tildeslash LTD) expands upon the capabilities of monit, providing multi-host monitoring and analysis from within one web interface.