Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be. This was far more than I really needed, but the monitoring of services definitely caught my attention so I set about installing and configuring. I was pleasantly surprised with the result, and how simple the whole process was.