# How do I create an alarm to monitor application service or process

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-do-i-create-an-alarm-to-monitor-application-service-or-process/922>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent\
**Created:** [February 10, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-do-i-create-an-alarm-to-monitor-application-service-or-process/922 "2021-02-10T10:34:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![sandy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/sandy/32/479_2.png) [@sandy](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/sandy)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-do-i-create-an-alarm-to-monitor-application-service-or-process/922/1 "2021-02-10T10:34:25Z")

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Hi,

I have a Ubuntu 18.04 server running a Java Tomcat and Node.Js applications. I am able to see the apps.uptime chart and can see Java and Node over there but cant find the documentation on how to monitor this if it exits or goes to zero. Any advice will be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![max](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@max](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/max)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-do-i-create-an-alarm-to-monitor-application-service-or-process/922/2 "2022-06-19T14:47:37Z")

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Did you ever got a solution for this? I want to monitor the tomcat/Apache/Java as well

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**Author:** ![andrewm4894](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/andrewm4894/32/125_2.png) [@andrewm4894](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/andrewm4894)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-do-i-create-an-alarm-to-monitor-application-service-or-process/922/3 "2022-06-19T21:51:59Z")

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Some docs here might be useful maybe?

> **[Apache Tomcat monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin/tomcat)**
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> Presents memory utilization of tomcat containers.

> **[Java Spring Boot 2 application monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin/springboot)**
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> Monitors one or more Java Spring-boot applications depending on configuration.

> **[Apache monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/apache)**
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> Monitor the health and performance of Apache web servers with zero configuration, per-second metric granularity, and interactive visualizations.