Monitoring mongrel with monit

Question

I wrote a monit.d file for mongrels which works in this version:

check process redmine with pidfile /home/redmine/service/redmine.pid
group webservice

start program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -p 41328 -e production -d --pid /home/redmine/service/redmine.pid --user redmine --group redmine -a 127.0.0.1 -c /home/redmine/app"
stop program  = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails stop --pid /home/redmine/service/redmine.pid  -c /home/redmine/app && rm /home/redmine/service/redmine.pid > /dev/null 2>&1"

if cpu greater 50% for 2 cycles then alert
if cpu greater 80% for 3 cycles then restart


if totalmem greater 60.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart
if loadavg (5min) greater 4 for 8 cycles then restart

if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout


$ Checking monit control file syntax...
$ Control file syntax OK

I want to also monitor the http response, so I add this line at the end:

if failed port 41328 protocol http with timeout 10 seconds then restart

Now monit complains:

$ Checking monit control file syntax...
$ /etc/monit.d/redmine:16: Error: exceeded maximum number of program arguments 'http'
$ ERROR: CHECK MONIT CONFIG FILE SYNTAX

How do I correctly monitor the port?

EDIT: I found my mistake at last: I accidently did not put the closing quotes at the end of the "stop program" line above. I now corrected it in the question and also on my server.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '10 at 20:33

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The correct instruction would be:

if failed port 41328 protocol http then restart

The with timeout 10 seconds applies when starting a program to create a failure after timeout.

Best regards,
João Miguel Neves

answered Apr 30 '10 at 20:33

jneves

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jneves thank you for your answer. In the end I could not confirm your information from the behaviour of monit. After I corrected my other error my original directive was accepted and also shows on the status page like this: "If failed localhost:41328 [HTTP via TCP] with timeout 10 seconds 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then restart else if passed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert" – user12096 May 03 '10 at 16:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '10 at 16:42

I found my mistake at last: I accidently did not put the closing quotes at the end of the "stop program" line above. I now corrected it in the question and also on my server.

Now also the port line works without change:

if failed port 41328 protocol http with timeout 10 seconds then restart

Monitoring mongrel with monit

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