Monitor status

[arjen8]

Is it possible to monitor the status of Spotify connect, by using for example Monit? And if the service is down, restart the service.

[maumi]

you can use daemontools for restart. you can also log with it. https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

[arjen8]

Could you help me with the right command to check the status and restart the service if necessary? Tnx!

[herrernst]

Or if your system uses systemd, just write a small unit file, systemd will restart a service automatically if it fails.

[maumi]

with daemontools, you simply need to install it. http://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-set-up-a-simple-service-to-run-in-the-background-on-a-linux-machine-using-daemontools/ in run file you need a starting script for spotify. If it fails, it will restart also automatically. If it fails on start, it surely won't help. If you want logging, you can google for that.

[cadavre]

I used supervisord.org to keep this running.