Supervisor

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Supervisor is a client/server process control system for UNIX-like operating systems that starts, stops, restarts, and monitors processes as subprocesses of supervisord. It provides a supervisorctl CLI, a web interface, and an XML-RPC API for managing and observing process state.

Use cases

• keep a crashed process running by automatically restarting it
• manage multiple app processes on a server without writing rc.d scripts
• let non-root users start and stop services without shell access
• monitor the up/down status of background workers
• control long-running Python or Node processes in production
• restart a process automatically when it uses too much memory
• query and control processes programmatically via XML-RPC

When to choose

• you need simple, reliable process supervision on Linux, macOS, Solaris, or FreeBSD
• you want a CLI and web UI to start/stop/restart application processes
• you need automatic restart of crashed processes with accurate status reporting
• you want to delegate limited process control to non-root users

When to avoid

• you are on Windows - Supervisor does not run there at all
• you need a full init system or PID 1 replacement like systemd, launchd, or runit
• you are already using systemd, which covers most of the same use cases on modern Linux
• you need container-native supervision (use the container runtime or a supervisor like s6 in that context)

Facets

application · maturity stable

monitoring developer-tools configuration-management self-hosted infrastructure-as-code bsd python cli process-control process-management supervisord daemon init-system xml-rpc client-server devops automation linux macos web-server

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