I can’t tell you how often I used to get burned by a Windows service unexpectedly terminating and the wrath that can follow. What I have searched for on many occasions is a very simple application that would monitor selected services on a specified interval. If any of the monitored services are not running, I want an email.

I don’t just want the service to restart. That’s little more than a bandaid. Why did that service stop? There was a reason and that reason should not be ignored. I want to know when the service stops.

Since I couldn’t find an application like the one I have described, I wrote one. It is simplistic which is exactly what I wanted. It does exactly what it needs to do and it does so flawlessly.

I’ll be releasing this application here on the blog soon. If you would like to be notified when this application becomes available, just signup for annoucements up there at the top right.

Take care,

Zachary M. Morvik