Tuesday, January 29 2008 02:04monitoring

Just installed monit, a very nice tool to make sure my mongrels are behaving correctly.

Any time something bad happens, monit can automatically restart the processes and/or send me an email.

In the process of tweaking the servers, I wrote some scripts to automatically test zena on every commit. In order to avoid pulling down my fragile server (256Mb), I had to take special care to avoid launching the tests multiple times if I push from svk.

Thanks monit for giving me this nice browser window with memory usage, disk space left and those important things I will never bother to go read with the command line.

When other important features/bugs are fixed, I will probably write a capistrano task to automatically generate the monit configuration script.