Information about the Monit monitoring tool
We continue the topic of monitoring tools and applications.
In today's article, we will look at a tool called Monit, which is also one of the popular monitoring solutions. Today you will find out what kind of tool it is, what advantages it has, what are the reasons for its popularity, and also how to install it on the server?
What is Monit?
Monit is a server monitoring system that is very lightweight. It has an open source code and a number of excellent features, for example, notifying the administrator about failures or responding to certain events. Monit is an independent daemon (a program that runs in the background) running from the Root user.
What operating systems does it support?
The following operating systems are supported: GNU\Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc. Thanks to which you can install it on a sufficiently large number of systems that will allow you to monitor your system regardless of its operating system.
Advantages
- Monitoring the status of servers
- Program monitoring
- Network monitoring
- Performing certain actions
You can independently or with the help of scripts set the actions that Monit will perform after certain conditions are made on the server. - Notifications
You can configure the sending of notifications so that in case of a failure of servers or some services, a letter will come to your mail.
Also, this tool has other advantages. But above we have indicated five very important advantages that will be useful in the work.
Reasons for popularity
This monitoring system is very popular due to its ease of operation and its capabilities. Users use it to this day because the interface is very friendly to new users and intuitive.
Installation method
This monitoring system is distributed in the repositories of popular operating systems, and in order to install it, you will have to perform some actions. Which ones we have sorted out on our YouTube channel. In the description below the video you will find detailed instructions on what you need to do and when, and with the help of the video itself you will learn more about all the installation steps.