Debugging monit

Question

I find debugging monit to be a major pain. Monit\'s shell environment basically has nothing in it (no paths or other environment variables). Also, there are no log file that

Answer 1

By default, monit logs to your system message log and you can check there to see what's happening.

Also, depending on your config, you might be logging to a different place

tail -f /var/log/monit

http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#LOGGING

Assuming defaults (as of whatever old version of monit I'm using), you can tail the logs as such:

CentOS:

tail -f /var/log/messages

Ubuntu:

tail -f /var/log/syslog

Mac OSX

tail -f /var/log/system.log

Windows

Here be Dragons

But there is a neato project I found while searching on how to do this out of morbid curiosity: https://github.com/derFunk/monit-windows-agent