dockerfiles/monit

monit

Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system.

directory tree

~/fig/monit/
├── docker-compose.yml
└── data/
    ├── conf.d/
    │   ├── network.cfg
    │   ├── setting.cfg
    │   └── system.cfg
    └── monitrc

Make sure config file endswith .cfg.

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"
services:
  monit:
    image: vimagick/monit
    volumes:
      - ./data:/etc/monit
    pid: host
    net: host
    restart: unless-stopped

The control file /etc/monit/monitrc must have permissions no more than -rwx------ (0700)

Server Setup

$ cd ~/fig/monit/
$ docker-compose up -d
$ docker exec monit_monit_1 monit status

Client Setup

$ firefox http://admin:monit@server:2812