How to monitor delayed_job with monit

Question

Are there any examples on the web of how to monitor delayed_job with Monit?

Everything I can find uses God, but I refuse to use God since long running processes in

Answer 1

If your monit is running as root and you want to run delayed_job as my_user then do this:

/etc/init.d/delayed_job:

#!/bin/sh
#   chmod 755 /etc/init.d/delayed_job
#   chown root:root /etc/init.d/delayed_job

case "$1" in
  start|stop|restart)
    DJ_CMD=$1
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
    exit
esac

su -c "cd /var/www/my_app/current && /usr/bin/env bin/delayed_job $DJ_CMD" - my_user

/var/www/my_app/shared/monit/delayed_job.monitrc:

check process delayed_job with pidfile /var/www/my_app/shared/tmp/pids/delayed_job.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/delayed_job start"
stop  program = "/etc/init.d/delayed_job stop"
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

/etc/monit/monitrc:

# add at bottom
include /var/www/my_app/shared/monit/*