AppRestarter is a software that enables application monitoring and smart restarting based on user-defined configuration. AppRestarter allows you to choose executable files and watch them for unexpected shutdowns. Once a monitored application is shutdown, AppRestarter will restart the application after a predefined wait period. Additionally, AppRestarter supports command-line arguments for each monitored application and 3 different execution strategies.
Each application can be executed in 3 different ways (currently). Those ways are:
- Classic process spawning, same as double-clicking your executable
- Through command-line
- As standalone command-line command
Classic process spawning will restart your application as if you double-clicked the executable file. You can additionally specify command-line arguments to be passed to your executable. Moreover, you can choose whether you'd like to show the process main window or run it in the background, hidden.
Your application will be ran inside cmd.exe. This is similar to typing your application's path inside cmd.exe or PowerShell and passing your desired arguments. Of course, arguments are also passable in this scenario alongside choosing whether you'd like to display the spawned command-line window.
This scenario is useful for running command-line commands in predetermined periods. Instead of selecting an executable file to monitor, you will be asked to provide a base directory instead. This will be your command-line's base directory, similar to running cd commands. For example, one use-case scenario would be if you want to run yarn start on a specific directory and monitor yarn for unexpected shutdowns. Once yarn terminates, AppRestarter will re-execute the command to respawn the process.
Note: Each application is monitored a separate background thread.
AppRestarter allows a number of configurations to be specified for each application.
Those configurations include the following:
- Command line arguments
- Show application window
- Run application inside
cmd.exe - Log application events
- Polling interval, the delay between each check to determine if a given process is alive
- Restart after, the delay to wait before restarting a process
These configurations are application specific. Each application can have its own set of configurations.
AppRestarter offers basic event logging for each application. You will need to enable Log application events when you add an application on AppRestarter in order to monitor what happens behind the scene. You can either view logs on a separate window or save them in a directory of your choice. Additionally, you can choose to keep logs in a single file or separately per application.
AppRestarter can also be started automatically with Windows. All you have to do is enable the respective setting in AppRestarter's settings. Keep in mind that AppRestarter will not automatically start your applications on Windows startup to prevent issues such as slow startup or antivrus false-positives. You will need to start AppRestarter's monitoring manually, once per Windows boot.
Finally, AppRestarter will automatically save your monitor applications when you close the main window. You will not need to re-add each time you run AppRestarter. Save, update and loading is done automatically for you.
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