Monit is a systems management tool that provides monitoring and automatic actions to resolve issues in your system. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Monit on Clear Linux Latest.
First, update your system to ensure that all packages are up to date.
sudo swupd update
To install Monit on Clear Linux Latest, run the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add monit
To verify Monit’s installation, use the following command:
sudo monit status
This should display the following output:
The Monit daemon 5.28.0 uptime: 1h 13m
System 'myhostname'
status Running
monitoring status Monitored
load average [0.03] [0.05] [0.00]
cpu 0.0%us 0.0%sy 0.0%wa
memory usage 6576 kB [8.1%]
swap usage 0 kB [0.0%]
uptime 1h 13m
To configure Monit, you need to create a configuration file in the /etc/monit/conf.d/ directory:
sudo nano /etc/monit/conf.d/monitrc
Add the following lines to the configuration file:
set daemon 1800 # Check services every 1800 seconds (30 minutes)
set logfile syslog
set mailserver smtp.gmail.com port 587 username "your_email_address" password "your_email_password" using tlsv1
# Change the email configuration as per your provider
set alert admin@example.com # Add the email address you want to receive alerts on
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL + X, then Y, then Enter.
To check the configuration file syntax, use the following command:
sudo monit -t
If everything is okay, you should see the following output:
Control file syntax OK
Now you can start Monit:
sudo systemctl enable monit # Enable Monit at boot
sudo systemctl start monit # Start Monit
To monitor services with Monit, add your services to the configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/monit/conf.d/monitrc
Now you can add your services to monitor by adding the following lines to the configuration file:
check process nginx with pidfile /run/nginx.pid
start program = "/usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf" with timeout 60 seconds
stop program = "/bin/systemctl stop nginx.service"
check process php-fpm with pidfile /run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
start program = "/usr/sbin/php-fpm -D" with timeout 60 seconds
stop program = "/bin/systemctl stop php-fpm.service"
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL + X, then Y, then Enter.
To reload Monit’s configuration and start monitoring the new services, use the following command:
sudo monit reload
Monit is an excellent tool for monitoring your system and automatically resolving issues. In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Monit on Clear Linux Latest and how to configure it to monitor services. We hope this tutorial has been helpful to you!
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