pm2/lib/API/schema.json

{
  "script": {
    "type": "string",
    "require": true,
    "alias" : "exec",
    "docDescription": "Path of the script to launch, required field"
  },
  "name": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDefault": "Script filename without the extension (app for app.js)",
    "docDescription": "Process name in the process list"
  },
  "name_prefix": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "filter_env": {
    "type": [
      "boolean",
      "array",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Enable filtering global environments"
  },
  "namespace": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDefault": "default",
    "docDescription": "Process namespace"
  },
  "install_url": {
    "type": "string"
  },
  "cwd": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDefault": "CWD of the current environment (from your shell)",
    "docDescription": "Current working directory to start the process with"
  },
  "args": {
    "type": [
      "array",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDescription": "Arguments to pass to the script"
  },
  "exec_interpreter": {
    "type": "string",
    "alias": "interpreter",
    "docDefault": "node",
    "docDescription": "Interpreter absolute path"
  },
  "node_args": {
    "type": [
      "array",
      "string"
    ],
    "alias": ["interpreterArgs", "interpreter_args"],
    "docDescription": "Arguments to pass to the interpreter"
  },
  "out_file": {
    "type": "string",
    "alias": ["out", "output", "out_log"],
    "docDefault": "~/.pm2/logs/<app_name>-out.log",
    "docDescription": "File path for stdout (each line is appended to this file)"
  },
  "error_file": {
    "type": "string",
    "alias": ["error", "err", "err_file", "err_log"],
    "docDefault": "~/.pm2/logs/<app_name>-error.err",
    "docDescription": "File path for stderr (each line is appended to this file)"
  },
  "log_file": {
    "type": [
      "boolean",
      "string"
    ],
    "alias": "log",
    "docDefault": "/dev/null",
    "docDescription": "File path for combined stdout and stderr (each line is appended to this file)"
  },
  "disable_logs": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Disable all logs storage"
  },
  "log_type": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDescription": "Define a specific log output type, possible value: json"
  },
  "log_date_format": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDescription": "Format for log timestamps in day.js format (eg YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z)"
  },
  "time": {
    "type": "boolean"
  },
  "env": {
    "type": [
      "object",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDescription": "Specify environment variables to be injected"
  },
  "^env_\\S*$": {
    "type": [
      "object",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDescription": "Specify environment variables to be injected when using --env <env_name>"
  },
  "max_memory_restart": {
    "type": [
      "string",
      "number"
    ],
    "regex": "^\\d+(G|M|K)?$",
    "ext_type": "sbyte",
    "desc": "it should be a NUMBER - byte, \"[NUMBER]G\"(Gigabyte), \"[NUMBER]M\"(Megabyte) or \"[NUMBER]K\"(Kilobyte)",
    "docDescription": "Restart the app if an amount of memory is exceeded (format: /[0-9](K&#124;M&#124;G)?/ K for KB, 'M' for MB, 'G' for GB, default to B)"
  },
  "pid_file": {
    "type": "string",
    "alias": "pid",
    "docDefault": "~/.pm2/pids/app_name-id.pid",
    "docDescription": "File path where the pid of the started process is written by pm2"
  },
  "restart_delay": {
    "type" : "number",
    "docDefault": 0,
    "docDescription": "Time in ms to wait before restarting a crashing app"
  },
  "exp_backoff_restart_delay": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDefault": 0,
    "docDescription": "Restart Time in ms to wait before restarting a crashing app"
  },
  "source_map_support": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": true,
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the source map support"
  },
  "disable_source_map_support": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the source map support"
  },
  "wait_ready": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Make the process wait for a process.send('ready')"
  },
  "instances": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDefault": 1,
    "docDescription": "Number of instances to be started in cluster mode"
  },
  "kill_timeout": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDefault": 1600,
    "docDescription": "Time in ms before sending the final SIGKILL signal after SIGINT"
  },
  "shutdown_with_message": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Shutdown an application with process.send('shutdown') instead of process.kill(pid, SIGINT)"
  },
  "listen_timeout": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDescription": "Time in ms before forcing a reload if app is still not listening/has still note sent ready"
  },
  "cron_restart": {
    "type": "string",
    "alias": "cron",
    "docDescription": "A cron pattern to restart your app"
  },
  "merge_logs": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "alias" : "combine_logs",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "In cluster mode, merge each type of logs into a single file (instead of having one for each cluster)"
  },
  "vizion": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default" : true,
    "docDefault" : "True",
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the versioning metadatas (vizion library)"
  },
  "autorestart": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default": true,
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable auto restart after process failure"
  },
  "watch_delay": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Restart delay on file change detected"
  },
  "watch": {
    "type": [
      "boolean",
      "array",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the watch mode"
  },
  "ignore_watch": {
    "type": [
      "array",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDescription": "List of paths to ignore (regex)"
  },
  "watch_options": {
    "type": "object",
    "docDescription": "Object that will be used as an options with chokidar (refer to chokidar documentation)"
  },
  "min_uptime": {
    "type": [
      "number",
      "string"
    ],
    "regex": "^\\d+(h|m|s)?$",
    "desc": "it should be a NUMBER - milliseconds, \"[NUMBER]h\"(hours), \"[NUMBER]m\"(minutes) or \"[NUMBER]s\"(seconds)",
    "min": 100,
    "ext_type": "stime",
    "docDefault": 1000,
    "docDescription": "Minimum uptime of the app to be considered started (format is /[0-9]+(h&#124;m&#124;s)?/, for hours, minutes, seconds, docDefault to ms)"
  },
  "max_restarts": {
    "type": "number",
    "min": 0,
    "docDefault": 16,
    "docDescription": "Number of times a script is restarted when it exits in less than min_uptime"
  },
  "execute_command": {
    "type": "boolean"
  },
  "exec_mode": {
    "type": "string",
    "regex": "^(cluster|fork)(_mode)?$",
    "desc": "it should be \"cluster\"(\"cluster_mode\") or \"fork\"(\"fork_mode\") only",
    "docDefault": "fork",
    "docDescription": "Set the execution mode, possible values: fork&#124;cluster"
  },
  "force": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Start a script even if it is already running (only the script path is considered)"
  },
  "append_env_to_name": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Append the environment name to the app name"
  },
  "post_update": {
    "type": "array",
    "docDescription": "List of commands executed after a pull/upgrade operation performed from Keymetrics dashboard"
  },
  "trace": {
    "type": [
      "boolean"
    ],
    "docDefault": false,
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the transaction tracing"
  },
  "disable_trace": {
    "type": [
      "boolean"
    ],
    "docDefault": true,
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the transaction tracing"
  },
  "v8": {
    "type": [
      "boolean"
    ]
  },
  "event_loop_inspector": {
    "type": [
      "boolean"
    ]
  },
  "deep_monitoring": {
    "type": [
      "boolean"
    ]
  },
  "increment_var": {
    "type": "string",
    "docDescription": "Specify the name of an environment variable to inject which increments for each cluster"
  },
  "instance_var": {
    "type": "string",
    "default": "NODE_APP_INSTANCE",
    "docDefault": "NODE_APP_INSTANCE",
    "docDescription": "Rename the NODE_APP_INSTANCE environment variable"
  },
  "pmx": {
    "type": ["boolean", "string"],
    "default": true,
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable pmx wrapping"
  },
  "automation": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default": true,
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable pmx wrapping"
  },
  "treekill": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "default": true,
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Only kill the main process, not detached children"
  },
  "port": {
    "type": "number",
    "docDescription": "Shortcut to inject a PORT environment variable"
  },
  "username" : {
    "type": "string",
    "docDescription": "Current user that started the process"
  },
  "uid": {
    "type" : [
      "number",
      "string"
    ],
    "alias": "user",
    "docDefault": "Current user uid",
    "docDescription": "Set user id"
  },
  "gid": {
    "type" : [
      "number",
      "string"
    ],
    "docDefault": "Current user gid",
    "docDescription": "Set group id"
  },
  "windowsHide": {
    "type": "boolean",
    "docDefault": "True",
    "docDescription": "Enable or disable the Windows popup when starting an app",
    "default": true
  },
  "kill_retry_time": {
    "type": "number",
    "default" : 100
  },
  "write": {
    "type": "boolean"
  },
  "io": {
    "type": "object",
    "docDescription": "Specify apm values and configuration"
  }
}