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brew install monprovider-native install command
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Install mon with Homebrew
Monitor hosts/services/whatever and alert about problems. Version 1.2.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Monitor hosts/services/whatever and alert about problems
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mon
history
Project history and usage
mon is TJ Holowaychuk's small C process monitor, framed by its README as a reaction against heavier monitoring tools and their configuration languages. The project deliberately keeps the model simple: run a command, restart it on failure, optionally daemonize it, and call user-supplied scripts on restart or final error.
Project history
The tool is used more like a tiny supervisor than a full metrics system. Its README shows one mon instance per process, shell scripts as configuration, PID files and log prefixes for multiple instances, and companion tools such as mongroup for managing groups of mon processes. Homebrew packages it as a lightweight system utility for monitoring hosts, services, or arbitrary commands and alerting about problems.
How it is used
Because public sources for this particular mon package are sparse outside the upstream README and package metadata, its project history is best treated as a short package note rather than a detailed adoption narrative.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mon | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.2.3
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mon |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.3 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/tj/mon |
| Repository | https://github.com/tj/mon |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation