Install Monit on CentOS

Monit allow you to monitor process. It can restart failed process or alert when server is overloaded.

On CentOS server, you need to enable EPEL repo to install monit.

yum install epel-release -y

1	yum install epel-release -y

Install monit with

yum install monit -y

1	yum install monit -y

Enable monit to auto start on boot

systemctl enable monit

1	systemctl enable monit

Start monit service

systemctl start monit

1	systemctl start monit

On CentOS, monit configuration file located at

vi  /etc/monitrc

1	vi /etc/monitrc