Node js cluster and pm2 cluster

So I am running a service in node which has a node js cluster usage meaning I am running the service with node js clusters... now I want to use pm2 and I use the pm2 cluster mode. I wonder if it's a good thing to use both of them at the same time or should I use only one of them for better performance and stuff like that... Any help would be appreciated

Solution

To take the complexity out of your architecture I would recommend to use PM2. It lets you efficiently manage multiple processes. It has many features including:

Auto restart an app, if there is any change in code with Watch & Reload.
An easy log management for processes.
Monitoring capabilities of the process.
An auto restart if the system reaches max memory limit or it crashes.
Keymetrics monitoring over the web.

As the processes are separated, now can start/stop/restart them with your pm2.config.js, i.e

pm2 start pm2.config.js // start all processes
pm2 stop app // stop app processes
pm2 restart smsWorker // restart smsWorker