Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.



perp is described as 'The perp package provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes' and is a process monitoring tool in the os & utilities category. There are 2 alternatives to perp for Mac, Linux and BSD. The best perp alternative is Monit, which is both free and Open Source.
Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.



runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems.