Monitoring with "monit" on Ubuntu

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Hi,

I’m using Duplicati on some Ubuntu systems (servers/workstations). Mainly on the workstation it crashes sometimes. To be sure it is running I integrated it into “monit” (simple monitoring solution for linux).

This is the configuration for monit:

check process DuplicatiServer matching "DuplicatiServer"
        group backup
        start program = "/usr/sbin/service duplicati start"
        stop  program = "/usr/sbin/service duplicati stop"

It simply checks if DuplicatiServer is in the process list and if not it tries to start DuplicatiServer again.

Secondly I set up monit to also check for duplicati warnings/errors. Whenever a warning/error occurs it will send the log by mail.

Settings in duplicati:

log-file = /var/log/duplicati.log
log-level = Warning

Configuration for monit:

check file duplicati_log with path /var/log/duplicati.log
        if changed timestamp then exec "/bin/bash -c 'tail -n50 /var/log/duplicati.log | mail -s "Duplicati Log" my@mail.com'"

Maybe it is useful for someone. Maybe someone has better solution or hints.

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Thanks for sharing your solution! :slight_smile: