PM2 Node.js Production Process Manager with Load Balancing

PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js and Bun applications with a built-in load balancer. With over 42,000 GitHub stars and millions of weekly npm downloads, it keeps applications alive forever, enables zero-downtime reloads, and provides comprehensive process monitoring with cluster mode support.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• $ npm install pm2 -g
• RUN npm install pm2 -g
• $ npm install pm2@latest -g

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js/Bun applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin t...
• PM2 is constantly assailed by a comprehensive test suite.
• Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Supports Node.js 18+ and Bun 1+.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• More about Process Management

• More information about how PM2 makes clustering easy

• More about log management

• Source: https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unitech/pm2/HEAD/README.md

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