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Watchdog and M/Monit

Posted: Friday 03 April 2020 16:21
by AllesVanZelf
I've had Monit running in the background for a long time. Since today I had sudden reboots, because domoticz was offline according to Monit.
I do not know why. I'll have to find that out.
But because off this I had a look at Watchdog too. Watchdog uses the raspberry pi hardware to force a reboot. If I understand this well. But a reset by watchdog is not a clean reboot. Monit is able to manage services and stop them if possible.

Would it be a good idea, or totally not, to use them both? Watchdog on the hardware / low level and monit on services? Or do I misunderstand how this works?

Re: Watchdog and M/Monit

Posted: Sunday 05 April 2020 12:51
by AllesVanZelf
Does anyone had an opinion on this?

Re: Watchdog and M/Monit

Posted: Sunday 05 April 2020 12:57
by EddyG
I used Watchdog some years ago.
I do not now anymore why I discarded the Watchdog solution.
Watchdog is more for System and Hardware.
I use Monit to monitor and restart if necessary services.
I only use Monit now.