Supervisor Alternatives

Supervisor is described as 'Client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Supervisor for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Windows and Docker apps. The best Supervisor alternative is systemd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Supervisor are OpenRC, runit, PM2 and Chaperone Process Manager.

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  1. systemd icon

    systemd

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    systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    OpenRC

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    OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally /sbin/init. It is not a replacement for /sbin/init. OpenRC is 100% compatible with Gentoo init scripts, which means you can probably find one for the daemons you want to start in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. R

    runit

     7 likes

    runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. PM2 icon

    PM2

     3 likes

    Advanced process manager for production Node.js applications. Load balancer, logs facility, startup script, micro service management, at a glance.

    6 PM2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. C

    Chaperone Process Manager

     2 likes

    Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based startup, syslog logging, zombie harvesting, and job scheduling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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    sysvinit

     5 likes

    The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup, running, and shutdown of the system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. N

    nosh

     3 likes

    The nosh package is a suite of system-level utilities for initializing and running a BSD or Linux system, and for managing daemons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    finit

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    Finit is a small SysV init replacement with process supervision similar to that of daemontools and runit. Its focus is on small and embedded GNU/Linux systems, although fully functional on standard server and desktop installations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. systemE icon

    systemE

     1 like

    Using the tooling in this repo, I am able to boot from linux to sinit as PID1, and from there to Emacs acting as PID2 using --script mode, performing all typical rc.boot system initialization using Emacs lisp until we hit the getty.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    procd

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    procd is a process and system init service for OpenWRT. It's less resource intensive as it's intended for embedded devices, works with busybox and uClib, hotplug2, libubox and ubus. It watches configuration files to start or restart services and init...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • OpenWrt
     
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    orkify

     1 like

    JavaScript process manager with built-in deployments, cache, support chat, monitoring, error tracking, and AI integration — run on your own infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
    • Online
    • Kubernetes
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    nitro

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    tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     
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