AdvisorOn 6/27/2022 at 10:27 AM, Austin Culbertson said:That being said, my personal belief is that process monitoring is wholly insufficient for monitoring the state of your hosts and processes (good for collecting metrics, though). I would encourage folks to investigate how they can introspect the health of their process/services via whatever means available when possible (Think: performing a DB query instead of monitoring for MySQL/Postgres; Running `service <name> status` commands instead of simply checking if the process is running, etc). This takes a little more work, but is ABSOLUTELY worth the time investment.
Austin, could not agree more! We have a scheduler platform that relies on processes running on remote systems in order to be able to execute. They're not even registered as services (in Linux). And if the process fails the job fails. We would prefer to know if a job will fail before it runs, so monitoring the process is (so far) the best solution we can come up with.
On another note: I really wish LogicMonitor would support webhooks....
