# Recommendation or best practice for monitoring SystemD service state

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075>\
**Category:** Metrics\
**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075 "2022-02-02T15:08:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![yelloyonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5fc32e/32.png) [@yelloyonder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yelloyonder)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/1 "2022-02-02T15:08:33Z")

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Hello,

I would like to generate an alert if a service is not running, but I can't see a straight forward way to do this.

I can monitor the process the service starts up, but I was curious if there was a good way to monitor a service itself?

Thanks,  
jon

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/2 "2022-02-03T18:02:05Z")

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Hello.

Yes - Our observability solution should help you out. [Elastic Observability - An open, extensible solution for DevOps teams | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/observability)  
Please take a look at uptime [Synthetic Monitoring with Elastic Observability | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/observability/synthetic-monitoring)

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/3 "2022-02-28T17:38:30Z")

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For systemd metricbeat and filebeat would be more appropriate, Uptime is for monitoring network endpoints, including real browser based checks.

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**Author:** ![yelloyonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5fc32e/32.png) [@yelloyonder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yelloyonder)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/4 "2022-03-21T16:16:56Z")

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Thanks Andrew (Apologies I missed your reply).  
We are using Metric to raise an alarm if no Documents are created for a process in a given time frame. There's probably a better way but it seems to do the trick.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/5 "2022-03-21T20:56:02Z")

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Let me see if someone from the metrics team can help here, @rhodesjason any ideas?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075/6 "2022-04-18T20:56:19Z")

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