pm2t v4.8.0

A process manager for Node.js applications.

Starting an application in production mode is as easy as:

$ pm2t start app.js

Works on Linux (stable) & macOS (stable) & Windows (stable). All Node.js versions are supported starting Node.js 8.X.

Installing PM2t

With NPM:

$ npm install pm2t -g

Start an application

You can start any application (Node.js, Python, Ruby, binaries in $PATH...) like that:

$ pm2t start app.js

Your app is now daemonized, monitored and kept alive forever.

Managing Applications

Once applications are started you can manage them easily:

To list all running applications:

$ pm2t list

Managing apps is straightforward:

$ pm2t stop     <app_name|namespace|id|'all'|json_conf>
$ pm2t restart  <app_name|namespace|id|'all'|json_conf>
$ pm2t delete   <app_name|namespace|id|'all'|json_conf>

To have more details on a specific application:

$ pm2t describe <id|app_name>

To monitor logs, custom metrics, application information:

$ pm2t monit

More about Process Management

Cluster Mode: Node.js Load Balancing & Zero Downtime Reload

The Cluster mode is a special mode when starting a Node.js application, it starts multiple processes and load-balance HTTP/TCP/UDP queries between them. This increase overall performance (by a factor of x10 on 16 cores machines) and reliability (faster socket re-balancing in case of unhandled errors).

Starting a Node.js application in cluster mode that will leverage all CPUs available:

$ pm2t start api.js -i <processes>

<processes> can be 'max', -1 (all cpu minus 1) or a specified number of instances to start.

Zero Downtime Reload

Hot Reload allows to update an application without any downtime:

$ pm2t reload all

More informations about how PM2 make clustering easy

Container Support

With the drop-in replacement command for node, called pm2-runtime, run your Node.js application in a hardened production environment. Using it is seamless:

RUN npm install pm2 -g
CMD [ "pm2-runtime", "npm", "--", "start" ]

Read More about the dedicated integration

Terminal Based Monitoring

Monitor all processes launched straight from the command line:

$ pm2t monit

Log Management

To consult logs just type the command:

$ pm2t logs

Standard, Raw, JSON and formated output are available.

Examples:

$ pm2t logs APP-NAME       # Display APP-NAME logs
$ pm2t logs --json         # JSON output
$ pm2t logs --format       # Formated output

$ pm2t flush               # Flush all logs
$ pm2t reloadLogs          # Reload all logs

More about log management

Startup Scripts Generation

PM2 can generates and configure a Startup Script to keep PM2 and your processes alive at every server restart.

Init Systems Supported: systemd, upstart, launchd, rc.d

# Generate Startup Script
$ pm2t startup

# Freeze your process list across server restart
$ pm2t save

# Remove Startup Script
$ pm2t unstartup

More about Startup Scripts Generation

PM2 Modules

PM2 embeds a simple and powerful module system. Installing a module is straightforward:

$ pm2t install <module_name>

Here are some PM2 compatible modules (standalone Node.js applications managed by PM2):

pm2-logrotate automatically rotate logs and limit logs size pm2-server-monit monitor the current server with more than 20+ metrics and 8 actions

Updating PM2

# Install latest PM2 version
$ npm install pm2t@latest -g
# Save process list, exit old PM2 & restore all processes
$ pm2t update

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