strong-pm - Process Manager

StrongLoop PM is a production process manager for Node.js applications with built-in load balancing, monitoring, multi-host deployment, and a graphical console.

For more details, see http://strong-pm.io

Note: This node module is not currently under active development. However, we encourage contributions from the community.

Installation

Requirements: git needs to be installed

Install the client-side CLI and GUI (slc arc):

npm install -g strongloop
slc -h

Run app

slc start app.js

Or to deploy and manage remotely, install the manager on a production server using npm:

npm install -g strong-pm && sl-pm-install

Or using docker:

curl -sSL http://strong-pm.io/docker.sh | sudo /bin/sh

Quick Start

Under production, you will install the process manager as a system service, see http://strong-pm.io/prod, but if you are just trying the manager out locally, you can run an app directly from the command line.

Get a sample app (or use your own app):

git clone git@github.com:strongloop/express-example-app.git
cd express-example-app
npm install

Start the app under the process manager:

slc start

Interact with the app using the StrongLoop GUI:

slc arc

See http://strong-pm.io for more information.

Features

Build, package, and deploy your Node application to a local or remote system
Aggregate & rotate logs
Built-in load balancing
Keep processes and clusters alive forever
Profile CPU to find event loop stalls
Profile memory to find leaks
View performance metrics on your application
Use graphical tool or CLI
Docker support

Great for production!

Supports remote deploy and management
Git-based deploy for easy deployment versioning and rollback
Deployment does not have external dependencies (production hosts don't have to fetch from npmjs.org or Git)
Docker support
Built and supported by Node core maintainers at StrongLoop, battle-tested by enterprise customers

Build & Deploy

Multi-host deploy
Zero-downtime application restarts and upgrades
Install dependencies, run custom build steps, and prune development dependencies without affecting your source tree
SSH, HTTP, or Git-based deploy

Profile

Heap snapshots and CPU profiles
Profile applications to find performance bottlenecks
Use StrongLoop's unique event loop triggered profiling to start CPU profiling when the Node event loop stalls

Manage processes and clusters

Use all available CPU cores
Automatic restart on failure
Log aggregation and management
Change cluster size, view clustering info remotely
Set up secure access via SSH / HTTPS
Manage Nginx load-balancer for multi-host deployments

Metrics

View performance metrics such as event loop times, CPU and memory consumption
Publish metrics to StatsD-compatible servers, and view in 3rd-party consoles such as:
- DataDog
- Graphite
- Splunk
- Even syslog and raw log files
- See Integrating with third-party consoles for details.
Third-party probe metrics, for example for Memcached, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, and so on.

Docs & Community

For more resources, including links to blogs, see http://strong-pm.io/resources/.

Troubleshooting

Q: On deploy getting an `git: fatal: unable to access 'http://127.0.0.1:8701/default/': Empty reply from server

A: Check to make sure git is installed

License

You may use this library under the terms of the Artistic 2.0 license

strongloop / strong-pm

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