Re: Best practice to monitor google-chrome

[Martin Pala]

Using match based "check process" should be possible, but you need unique 
pattern - if multiple processes match the pattern, monit will report that the 
process is running.

You can test the pattern using:

        monit procmatch "chrome"

Regards,
Martin



> On 04 Nov 2015, at 10:19, Joost Plas | Pandora Producties.nl <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
> I’m looking for the best practice to monitor the health of Google Chrome. 
> Am I right to understand that Chrome doesn’t have a PID file?
> 
> I’ve tried the following 2 techniques:
> 
> 1. 
> check program chrome with path /usr/bin/google-chrome
> if status!=0 then exec “/usr/bin/pkill chrome”
> 
> (I have a script that auto reboots chrome with the correct settings when I 
> kill chrome).
> This is sort of working when I simulate a crash (type in chrome://crash in 
> browser). The problem is that it keeps killing chrome every time monit runs.
> I think it doesn’t reset the last exit value? When I type ‘monit status’ it 
> keeps saying ‘last exit value = 1’. How do I fix this? 
> Also I keep getting errors in M/Monit ‘cannot open display’. I think this is 
> because monit keeps trying to reopen chrome by itself. I thought I could fix 
> this by adding ‘mode passive’ but this doesn’t seem to be allowed here 
> because I get a syntax error.
> 
> 2. 
> check process chrome matching “chrome”
> 
> The problem with this version is that nothing happens when I manually crash 
> chrome. It keeps saying ‘status = Running’.
> 
> Hope someone can help me. I’m basically looking for the best technique to 
> catch all possible issues with chrome. Thanks!
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