Yes, the "timeout" statement can disable monitoring in case of too many restart 
errors:

  if <x> restarts within <y> cycles then timeout

If you need to continue monitoring regardless of restart failures, just remove 
this statement from service configuration.

Regards,
Martin


On Jan 13, 2010, at 11:34 PM, David Bristow wrote:

> A while ago, we had a service in the following state:
> 
> Process 'backgroundrb'
> status                            not monitored
> monitoring status                 not monitored
> data collected                    Fri Nov 13 03:03:43 2009
> 
> We don't think the service had been stopped (monit stop backgroundrb).
> Is there any situation where monit would get into this state, maybe
> after trying to restart backgroundrb too many times?
> 
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> David Bristow <[email protected]>
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