https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/Can-anyone-explain-Watchdog/m-p/109922#M1138 <P>As I am new to Dynatrace tool. Not aware anything about watchdog. Can anyone explain what is it and why we require in Dynatrace Managed?</P> Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:48:35 GMT HMaddipati 2023-04-21T07:48:35Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/Can-anyone-explain-Watchdog/m-p/109922#M1138 <P>As I am new to Dynatrace tool. Not aware anything about watchdog. Can anyone explain what is it and why we require in Dynatrace Managed?</P> Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:48:35 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/Can-anyone-explain-Watchdog/m-p/109922#M1138 HMaddipati 2023-04-21T07:48:35Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/Can-anyone-explain-Watchdog/m-p/109923#M1139 <P>Watchdog is a name commonly used for a process that restarts another process or other processes in the event they go down.</P><P>This is the comment at the top of the watchdog.sh script:</P><P>Watchdog - script for keeping the given component running</P><P>In the examples below, you can see what is being watched by reviewing the "watch" parameter:</P><P>dynatra+ 3426 1 0 Mar09 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/dynatrace-managed/services/watchdog.sh watch /opt/dynatrace-managed/services/cassandra.sh</P><P>dynatra+ 3570 1 0 Mar09 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/dynatrace-managed/nodekeeper/services/watchdog.sh watch /opt/dynatrace-managed/nodekeeper/services/nodekeeper.sh</P><P>dynatra+ 4057 1 0 Mar09 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/dynatrace-managed/services/watchdog.sh watch /opt/dynatrace-managed/services/elasticseach.sh</P> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:57:19 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/Can-anyone-explain-Watchdog/m-p/109923#M1139 dave_mauney 2020-03-10T13:57:19Z