# What is a monit cycle?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [October 11, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904 "2007-10-11T00:20:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904/1 "2007-10-11T00:20:36Z")

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At risk of sounding uneducated, can someone please tell me what is a  
“cycle” within the context of the monit config?

For example, if it states…

if 20 restarts in 20 cycles then timeout

so that means it restarts every cycle 20 times consecutively - but  
what is a cycle?

a unit of time?

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**Author:** ![ddancer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@ddancer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ddancer)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904/2 "2007-10-11T01:00:26Z")

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Andy K. escribió:

> a unit of time?
> 
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I think that cycle is the amount of time defined by “set daemon”  
directive in /etc/monitrc.

Someone that can confirm it?

Regards!

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**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904/3 "2007-10-11T01:44:57Z")

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On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Rafael G. wrote:

> > a unit of time?  
> > Regards!

You are correct sir. One cycle is equal to the number of seconds in  
the set daemon config options. 30 or 60 seconds is a good interval.

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**Author:** ![ddancer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@ddancer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ddancer)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904/4 "2007-10-11T03:19:50Z")

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On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:43 -0700, Ezra Z. wrote:

> You are correct sir. One cycle is equal to the number of seconds in  
> the set daemon config options. 30 or 60 seconds is a good interval.

By the way, Ezra, you’re going to post a note here once your book comes  
out, right? Definitely looking forward to it!

Yours,

Tom

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**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-monit-cycle/116904/5 "2007-10-11T04:20:16Z")

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Hi Ezra

Just boughtand downloaded your beta pdf book.  
Great stuff !

BTW,could you take a look at my earlierpost "Using Balancer-Manager  
effectively "?