Monitoring Linux Systems and Services with Monit (Hands-On Linux Course Preview)

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This video covers the configuration of basic Linux server and service monitoring (http/nginx, db/MySQL, etc.) using the monit monitoring tool.
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[@patricioreese4468]

sorry but, where did you get the configuration you copy to the new monitrc file? because it's not the same that was in the original one.

[@seindelossantos9073]

Great and helpful tutorial. But how monitrc.d created? Thanks!

[@goodyonsen77]

It’s not created, it’s probably already in his system. You can’t see such file in yours because your monit version is newer. This video is 5 years old. His monit.d is your "config-available”. Check the “conf-available” folder in /etc/monit/ to see what he lists as available configs in his monit.d.

[@rusoaica]

after installing, enabling and starting monit, I cannot find any /etc/monit/monitrc.d/ directory. Have I done something wrong, or have things changed since the video?

[@newwavex8665]

Yeah I dont have one either :/

[@emmanuelsosareyes9607]

I've seen that in directory conf-available there are the same files than in monitrc.d, maybe that's the new one... (?

[@africa-info4246]

Thanks you so much

[@valentin7773]

HI, love your videos Dave ! in minute ¬ 4:28 you copy all the configuration text from one to another file, how did you do it ? Thanks.

[@DevOpsKey1]

How can you create a different directory inside the monitrc.d

[@zuccolon]

How i can add email notification alerts?

[@tanja84dk1]

Thanks for a great video. I just have a question. Is it posible to get the config that you pasted into the conf file?

[@tutoriaLinux]

Sure, I just threw it up on Github: github.com/groovemonkey/tutorialinux/blob/master/config_files/monitoring/monitrc

[@arunkumar-up3uo]

How to monitor remote system, its processes and the applications running on it using monit tool

[@tutoriaLinux]

Monit is really only appropriate for single-system installs. For monitoring multiple systems I’d recommend an elk stack (self hosted or 3rd party, like datadog), or something like prometheus et al.

[@arunkumar-up3uo]

@@tutoriaLinux Thanks for the update

[@arunkumar-up3uo]

how to monitor multiple systems using monit

[@johnjohnson5818]

daemon is archaic spelling of demon. daemon is pronounced with long E, as in deeemon. I don't know about every other language, but in German, is a two vowel sequence, the second vowel is pronounced. The first vowel is silent. Hope this helps. Hope is am correct. Welcome additional help.

[@loganparrette2429]

Do us all a favor John and buzz off. No one is here to listen to proper pronunciation of words and I dont think anyone watching this video, who is watching it to learn, could care less about your grammatical savvy. If you don't like the way words are being pronounced gtfo. There are plenty of other sysadmin videos out there...clown.

[@loganparrette2429]

P.s. it is "Hope I am correct." not "Hope is am correct."

[@jhwheeler7]

No need to be belligerent, Logan. He's just trying to help out. Granted, John...you're wrong on two counts - one is that both pronunciations are accepted as standard (as you can see on Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)). Second is that your explanation about the first vowel being silent isn't quite right. The "ae" diphthong became "ee" for a variety of reasons which I won't go into here.

[@kilianmelcher3811]

I'm new to Linux and I'm just on the first semester of CS and I'm having a hard time following these last videos from the Sysadmin playlist

[@tutoriaLinux]

Which ones got hard/confusing for you? If you describe where you got lost I'm happy to make a few more videos explaining that!

[@kilianmelcher3811]

@@tutoriaLinux Nice for you to respond! I really much appreciated this Linux Course. I watched it entirely and I had difficulties with the following videos: Process, Process Signals, Proc filesystem, Monitoring Services, MySQL/Maria DB. It would be great if you could do more videos about Backups, since that's essencial for Sysadmin. Otherwise, great job!

[@aladolfsenjustanoldguy2045]

I'm running an installed version on Linux Mint 17.3. After I installed monit, and entered the systemctl command, I received an error: "systemctl: command not found"

[@tutoriaLinux]

Could be that they're just using the 'service' command. Just try 'service action>', e.g. service nginx reload.

[@Oswee]

Running everything as root?

[@stefano8936]

In which cases would you choose this over stuff like Prometheus?

[@tutoriaLinux]

Single-server, private deployments for hobby machines. Professionally I’d use prometheus, elk, or even more likely a 3rd party that wraps those for me like datadog.

[@tomislavfedek6678]

Can we use monit for just monitor icmp packets to server?

[@tutoriaLinux]

I'm thinking you want to use tcpdump.

[@vdz89]

This is showing when i start monit /etc/monit/monitrc:21: Error: syntax error 'ping' why?

[@tutoriaLinux]

What does line 21 of your monitrc file look like?

[@vdz89]

# (by default check immediately after monit start)

[@tutoriaLinux]

pastebin?

[@vdz89]

+tutoriaLinux i solve the problem, its ok now....tnx anyway

[@Khodi23]

Great video, but is there part 2?

[@tutoriaLinux]

Part 2 just went up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipnGkopqgrt6grs