# Alert if dispatch.fcgi fails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alert-if-dispatch-fcgi-fails/109877>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alert-if-dispatch-fcgi-fails/109877 "2007-07-19T20:47:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![plewizard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@plewizard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plewizard)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alert-if-dispatch-fcgi-fails/109877/1 "2007-07-19T20:47:38Z")

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hey guys, my company had a meltdown today because the site was down.  
turns out dispatch.fcgi was erroring. does anyone have a handy  
solution that will notify me somehow if dispatch.fcgi errors in the  
future. some way to rescue in dispatch.fcgi with a call to sendmail  
maybe? exception notifier is a great plugin (highly recommended) and  
i’m looking for something that’s useful even if the app can’t get on  
it’s feet.

any thoughts?

thanks,  
lawrence.

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**Author:** ![plewizard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@plewizard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/plewizard)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alert-if-dispatch-fcgi-fails/109877/2 "2007-07-25T18:08:33Z")

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On 19 Jul 2007, at 19:46, plewizard wrote:

> hey guys, my company had a meltdown today because the site was down.  
> turns out dispatch.fcgi was erroring. does anyone have a handy  
> solution that will notify me somehow if dispatch.fcgi errors in the  
> future. some way to rescue in dispatch.fcgi with a call to sendmail  
> maybe? exception notifier is a great plugin (highly recommended) and  
> i’m looking for something that’s useful even if the app can’t get on  
> it’s feet.

You could use Monit[1], God[2] or an external monitoring service such  
as Montastic[3].

[1] [Easy, proactive monitoring of processes, programs, files, directories, filesystems and hosts | Monit](http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/)  
[2] [http://god.rubyforge.org/](http://god.rubyforge.org/)  
[3] [http://www.montastic.com/](http://www.montastic.com/)

Regards,  
Andy S.