Monit configuration for php-fpm

Question

I'm struggling to find a monit config for php-fpm that works.

This is what I've tried:

### Monitoring php-fpm: the parent process.
check process php-fpm with pidfile /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
  group phpcgi # phpcgi group
  start program = "/etc/init.d/php-fpm start"
  stop program  = "/etc/init.d/php-fpm stop"
  ## Test the UNIX socket. Restart if down.
  if failed unixsocket /var/run/php-fpm.sock then restart
  ## If the restarts attempts fail then alert.
  if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

But it fails because there is no php-fpm.sock (Centos 6)

Answer 1

I´m using the ping.path directive in php-fpm to check if it´s working...

and configured it on nginx.conf (i down´t know if it´s your setup)

location /ping {
    access_log     off;
    allow          127.0.0.1;
    deny           all;
    root           html;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
    include        fastcgi_params;
}