Monitor your Node.js app in a cloud provider

In seconds, this tutorial will show you how to monitor a Node.js application with PM2 Plus in a cloud provider.

We assume that your app has already been wrapped with PM2. If not, follow the PM2 Cloud Provider Tutorial.

Create an account

In order to connect PM2 to the dashboard, you need to add your public and private keys in the environment.

export PM2_PUBLIC_KEY="YYYYY"
export PM2_SECRET_KEY="XXXXXXXXX"
pm2 update

Set the PM2_MACHINE_NAME environment variable to specify a server name:

export PM2_MACHINE_NAME="my-cloud-provider-server"

The default server name is the hostname (HOST environment variable) with a random string.

Be careful, in case of duplicate hostnames the dashboard will receive data from both instances and flicker.