[chef] Re: Thoughts on service monitoring...

[Sean Escriva < >]

If your needs are basic process management then runit is great. We use
it everywhere we need to manage processes and it's much prefered to
shipping init scripts in cookbooks.

Bluepill is used by a lot of the ruby/rails shops we work with. It
generally works well, but has caused occasional frustration by loosing
track of the unicorn child processes it's supposed to keep watch on.

An alternative is god, which bluepill started as a fork of due to a
memory issue. Both god and bluepill have a similar interface to process
monitoring.

Given a choice between those 3 I'd always prefer runit, unless you need
to monitor memory and cpu usage of process, in which case something like
god or bluepill is what you need.