Deploying Node.js

Using third-party monitoring tools

Node is a new technology for which there are few mature application monitoring tools. Some independent developers, along with established companies in the application monitoring space, have jumped in to fill this gap. In this section, we'll look at PM2 as a process manager and monitor and also have a look at Nodetime.

PM2

PM2 is designed to be an enterprise-level process manager. As discussed elsewhere, Node runs within a Unix process, and its child_process and cluster modules are used to spawn further processes, typically when scaling an application across multiple cores. PM2 can be used to implement the deployment and monitoring of your Node processes both via the command line and programmatically. Here, I will ...