I'm about to embark on a biggish rollout of local watchdogs in my monitoring solutions - about 100 hosts or so.
First tool I reached for was my trusty monit, been using it for years. Before I start though, I figured I should ask around if anyone has experince n a package that does what monit does better than monit does it. I find I type way too much stuff into monitrc, too many hard-coded file paths, too much stuff I have to look up in long-form to put into monitrc. Unfortunately, systemd with it's respawn feature isn't a global option, too many systems are not systemd. SysVInit is the common denominator My needs here are pretty simple: local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if not. If that fails 3 times or so, alert me. Maybe a few file/dir/fifo monitors as well. Not much else. I don't need any of monit's graphing features or M/monit, I have other tools for that. And mostly don't even need it's http API either. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
