Two supervisors watching the same process, each willing to restart it, and one of them unaware of the other. monit predates systemd on most of these hosts and…
A supervisor that quietly restarts a service is doing its job and hiding the problem, so a memory leak becomes a daily restart that nobody knows about. The…
A process supervisor that quietly restarts a service is doing its job and hiding the problem, so a memory leak becomes a daily restart nobody knows about. The…
Pointing monit at a process that keeps dying makes the symptom disappear, and that is precisely the risk: the service comes back within thirty seconds, the graph looks…
A week-old server already sees thousands of login attempts a day. Key-only SSH, a firewall, fail2ban and monit — and the recovery plan for locking yourself out.