Monit seems to give up restarting a service if it fails a few times, and unmonitors it. I can’t find anything in the documentation about the specifics of when or why.
My Monit config would be setup as follows:
set daemon 10
set logfile /var/log/monit.log
set statefile /var/lib/monit/monit.state
set alert foo@example.com not { nonexist, action, instance }
include /etc/monit/conf.d/*
And this is an example of the Monit ruleset I am using:
check process myservice
with pidfile /var/run/myservice/myservice.pid
start program = "/home/myservice/current/start-myservice.sh"
as uid myservice and gid myservice
stop program = "/home/myservice/current/stop-myservice.sh"
as uid myservice and gid myservice
mode active
In my environment, I want it to keep trying on its poll intervals indefinitely. Is there any way to configure monit to never stop monitoring a service, even if it doesn’t start up successfully?
Best Answer
I would simply use a cron job that would run
monit start servicenameat the desired intervals. Of course, you can use groups for a finer control.