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Monitoring BitTorrent Sync with Monit on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Over the past few days, I've been doing tons of DevOps work. Lots of setting up server monitoring, security, and automation. Most recently I wanted to give monit a try, as I've heard some good things about it. I was able to install it and get it up and running pretty hassle-free. I added in a few process checks for nginx, php-fpm, and postgres and it instantly was able to start tracking those processes for me. If you've gone through some of my other posts, you might remember a guide that I wrote about settings up BitTorrent Sync on a remote server, well today I'm going to expand on that a bit and add BitTorrent sync into my monit checks! There were multiple apparent walls that I was going to run into, as BitTorrent sync wasn't exactly written to be placed on a web server, so it lacks a few…