Alert if dispatch.fcgi fails

Rails
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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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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
[2] http://god.rubyforge.org/
[3] http://www.montastic.com/

Regards,
Andy S.