Monitor Coldfusion on linux with monit?

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We are trying to use monit to monitor services on our Ubuntu machine. I have successfully setup a host url check to make sure that coldfusion can render web pages and it there is an error to restart coldfusion.

I was wondering if there is a way to get more stats into monit by monitoring the coldfusion process. I have been unable to find out if coldfusion creates a pid file.

Does Coldfusion 9 or Jrun create a pid file for monit to use? Is there another way to monitor coldfusion with monit?

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ColdFusion can output real-time performance metrics such as:

  • Page hits per second
  • Database accesses per second
  • Number of queued requests
  • Number of running requests
  • Number of timed out requests
  • Average queue time
  • Average request time
  • Average database transaction time
  • Bytes incoming per second
  • Bytes outgoing per second

You can learn more about the output of this logging here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7fe0.html#WS9F365555-357A-4a15-AC72-449EF611E342

I would be interested to learn how you set this up once complete. I'll have the same task in a few weeks.

Thanks!

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You will need to create the PID file with a wrapper script around your Java application. I'm doing the same thing myself these days. To the best of my understanding monit has to have the PID file to check the life of your service.