pm2 list shows empty but pm2 is running

[imyashvinder]

I am running node server in autoscaling and i have written few commands in bootstrap script to start pm2 after deployment.
pm2 starts after deployment as expected but when i check pm2 list, it shows empty, while checking 'netstat -tnlp' i see node server already running on port 8080.

Bootstrap script:
cd /opt
npm install
pm2 start server
service nginx start

netstat -tnlp:
tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 3041/node /opt/serv
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 2771/sshd

pm2 list:
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬─────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴─────┴──────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

Now if i try to run pm2 again by killing the old one with pkill -f PM2 and re run
pm2 start server, everything works well and it shows the id in pm2 list as well but i want this to be run in aws userdata script so that autoscaling could work.

I also tried pkill -f PM2 in userdata and then re-run pm2 start server but that didn't help as well.

More Info:
root user is running pm2
and i am also checking the above things from root user

I have googled enough :)

Regards,
Yash

[Marc-Roth]

Hi Yash,

did you already solve the problem? I'm running into same issue over here...

Regards,
Marc

[imyashvinder]

Hey Marc,

sudo pkill -f PM2
sudo pm2 start server.js -- prod
sudo pm2 startup
sudo pm2 save
sudo service nginx start

This worked for me :)

Regards,
Yash

[jonathanborges]

Still having problems with pm2-dev start config.yml. But pm2-runtime works fine. Can someone check this one, please?

[NahuPerez]

Hey Marc,

sudo pkill -f PM2
sudo pm2 start server.js -- prod
sudo pm2 startup
sudo pm2 save
sudo service nginx start

This worked for me :)

Regards,
Yash

work like a charm

[imyashvinder]

@NahuPerez Good to know buddy that it's working for you :)

[alikarimii]

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[hadynz]

I am running into a similar problem at the moment. I believe it is because of https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/992.

In short, PM2 is run by two different user types, and I am only able to see processes running that were invoked by my user. For example:

• root user - what CodeDeploy uses to build, deploy and run processes on my server
• my user /home/ubuntu/<me> - what I use when I login to my server to manually troubleshoot things on server