pm2/README.md

PM2 is a process manager for Node.JS application with a built-in load balancer.

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Compatible with CoffeeScript. Works on Linux & MacOS.

Install PM2

$ npm install pm2 -g

Start an application

$ pm2 start app.js
$ pm2 start app.js -i max  # Enable load-balancer and cluster features

Main features

Process management

Once app are started you can list them and manage them:

To list all running processes:

$ pm2 list

To manage your process it's straightforward:

$ pm2 stop     <app_name|id|all>
$ pm2 restart  <app_name|id|all>
$ pm2 delete   <app_name|id|all>

To get more details about a specific process:

$ pm2 describe 0

Monitoring

Monitor all processes launched:

$ pm2 monit

Log facilities

Displaying logs of specified process or all processes in realtime:

$ pm2 logs
$ pm2 logs big-api
$ pm2 flush          # Clear all the logs

Load balancing / 0s reload downtime

When an app is started with the -i option, the cluster mode is enabled.

With the cluster mode, PM2 enable load balancing between each worker. Each HTTP/TCP/UDP request will be forwarded to a specific process at a time.

$ pm2 start app.js -i max  # Enable load-balancer and cluster features

$ pm2 reload all           # Reload all apps in 0s manner

Startup script generation

PM2 can generate and configure a startup script to keep PM2 and your processes alive at every server restart.

$ pm2 startup <ubuntu|centos|gentoo|systemd>

To save a process list just do:

$ pm2 save

Monitoring dashboard

We're going to release a very nice product, a dashboard to monitor every part of your Node.js applications. Here are some links:

• Pitch + Survey People who fill the survey will be eligible for free license

Thanks in advance and we hope that you like PM2!

Other PM2 features

• Watch & Restart
• JSON application declaration
• Using PM2 in your code
• Deployment workflow
• Startup script generation (SystemV/Ubuntu/Gentoo/AWS)
• Advanced log management (flush, reload, ilogs)
• GracefullReload

Know more about PM2

Advanced README.md

Contributors

Contributors

License

Files in lib/ are made available under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 (AGPL 3.0). Except the file lib/CLI.js who is made under the terms of the Apache V2 license.