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AlwaysUp 17.5: Next-Gen Health Checks & Command Line Upgrades

What’s new… Automatically restart your app if a supporting Windows Service isn’t running Catch HTTP error messages with the Web Server sanity check Sanity checks inspect your application’s entire process tree Control AlwaysUp from a command prompt Heightened logging & … Continue reading

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Your Windows Service Says “Running,” But Is It Actually Working?

A green “Running” status in Services.msc can be very reassuring. Indeed, it means that your service’s executable is still active. But it’s NOT proof that your application is healthy — serving requests, processing jobs or accepting connections. The truth is … Continue reading

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Service Protector 11.5: Powerful New Tools Keep Your Windows Services Running 24/7

Service Protector 11.5 is out! This release enhances Service Protector’s sanity checks — advanced tools that automatically detect subtle failures and restart faulty services. Here’s what the team worked on this time around. Automatically restart your Windows Service if another … Continue reading

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Service Protector 11: Resource Monitoring, Help for Slow Services, and More

Our team released Service Protector 11.0 on October 25. Here’s what’s included in this new and improved version: Automatically restart your Windows Service if it consumes too many resource handles Is your Windows Service a “resource hog”? Does it chug … Continue reading

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Q&A: How Do I Force AlwaysUp To Restart My Batch File When It Hangs?

  I have a batch file I want to run once every minute. It copies certain files from one place to another. I have the batch file set so that AlwaysUp restarts it when it “fails” (stops running) as it is … Continue reading

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