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+# Monit - UNIX Systems Management
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+Run Monit inside docker.
+
+[![Monit](https://mmonit.com/monit/img/logo.png)](https://mmonit.com/monit/)
+
+[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.
+
+## Docker setup
+
+Install docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/
+
+Docker documentation: https://docs.docker.com/
+
+### Build-in docker image
+
+- build docker image `docker build -t monit .`
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+- start monit: `docker run -ti -p 2812:2812 -v $(pwd)/monitrc:/etc/monitrc monit`