This is a brief overview of PM2

Useful reference

Install PM2

Use PM2, a production process manager for Node applications with a built-in load balancer.

Install PM2

sudo npm install pm2 -g

and verify

pm2 -v

Useful PM2 commands

pm2 list

pm2 logs

pm2 stop <process-id>
or:
pm2 stop all

pm2 restart <process-id>
or:
pm2 restart all

pm2 delete <process-id>

pm2 describe <process-id>

pm2 logs APP-NAME

pm2 flush

pm2 reloadLogs

pm2 restart app_name
pm2 reload app_name
pm2 stop app_name
pm2 delete app_name

pm2 monit

pm2 plus

PM2 Logs

~/.pm2/logs

Add to PM2

handle-pm2 and verify with pm2 list

Ensure the list is correct.

Start PM2 on System Startup

PM2 will restart processes if they crash but cannot start itself.

Thus, need to start PM2 on system boot.

To get the automatically-configured startup script:

pm2 startup

[PM2] Init System found: systemd
[PM2] You have to run this command as root. Execute the following command:
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u jv --hp /home/jv

Run

sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u jv --hp /home/jv

ensure the list is correct

pm2 list

Freeze a process list on reboot

pm2 save

which saves in /home/jv/.pm2/dump.pm2

If you need to remove Init script

pm2 unstartup systemd

Check status of systemd unit:

The services are in /etc/systemd/system

systemctl status pm2-{user}

thus

systemctl status pm2-jv

If may be necessary to restart Ubuntu to ensure changes are reflected.

Logs

The logs can get quite large

/home/jv/.pm2/logs

Suggest

rm /home/jv/.pm2/logs
handle-pm2

Check if Running

systemctl status pm2-jv
pm2 list