tj/mon
mon(1) - Simple single-process process monitoring program written in C observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5257
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3647
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1075 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
mon(1) is a tiny single-process process monitoring program written in C that keeps a command running, restarting it when it exits. It supports daemonization, pidfiles, retry limits, and hooks to run commands on restart or error.
Use cases
- keep a program running and restart it when it crashes
- daemonize a long-running command with a pidfile
- run a script when a monitored process fails or restarts
- replace monit with a simpler lightweight supervisor
- monitor a single service with minimal memory overhead
When to choose
- you need a dead-simple, low-memory process supervisor for one command
- you find monit or systemd unit setup too complex for a quick job
- you want restart/error hook scripts with retry limits
When to avoid
- you need to monitor multiple programs with one tool
- you need an actively maintained project with security patches
- you need clustering, web UI, or rich alerting integrations
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
monitoring alerting cli monitoring self-hosted cli cross-platform process-monitoring process-supervisor c daemon restart-on-crash devops command-line linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/tj/mon · fetched 2026-08-28 · 80ccfc136fab
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| tj/mon | main | 32 |
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