[Monit](https://mmonit.com/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.
- pull docker image from docker hub: `docker pull kijart/monit`
- download a video using docker image: `docker run -ti -p 2812:2812 -v $(pwd)/monitrc:/etc/monitrc kijart/monit`
- create a docker container:
```
docker create \
--name=monit \
-p 2812:2812 \
-v $(pwd)/monitrc:/etc/monitrc \
kijart/monit
```
### Troubleshooting
If when starting Monit returns the following message: `The control file '/etc/monitrc' permission 0755 is wrong, maximum 0700 allowed`, simply give the appropriate permissions to _monitrc_: `chmod 700 monitrc`.