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Monitor Processes

The container runs multiple processes, including the Appsmith server, Caddy, MongoDB, etc., inside a single Docker container. These processes are started, managed, and monitored by Supervisor for your self-hosted instance.

Supervisor provides:

Web interface​

To set up the credentials for accessing the web interface, update the environment variables:

  1. Go to the docker.env file available in the stacks/configuration folder.
  2. Set the values for the below variables:
APPSMITH_SUPERVISOR_USER=<SUPERVISOR-USER>
APPSMITH_SUPERVISOR_PASSWORD=<SUPERVISOR-PASSWORD>
  1. Access the web interface of Supervisord to manage the Appsmith server, Caddy, MongoDB, and other components at http://[my_domain]/supervisor. For example, if Appsmith is accessible via http://localhost, you can access the Supervisor web interface at http://localhost/supervisor.
The web interface listing of all the managed processes
The web interface listing of all the managed processes

Command line interface​

The command line interface also helps in managing the Appsmith server, Caddy, MongoDB, and more.

For example:

  • Check the status of all running processes with:
docker-compose exec appsmith supervisorctl status
  • View the last few lines of the stderr output of a specific process with:
docker-compose exec appsmith supervisorctl tail <process_name> stderr

Refer to the Supervisor official documentation to learn more about the supervisorctl actions.