mikepea · August 29, 2015 14:11 · Dec 15, 2014 · Dec 15, 2014
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 ### Number of jobs in the queue
 
 ```
+# Should be an integer if queue is present and gearman running.
 gearadmin --status | grep "^${QUEUE_NAME}" | awk '{print $2}'
 ```
 

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+
+# Monitoring Gearman
+
+
+
+
+### Number of jobs in the queue
+
+```
+gearadmin --status | grep "^${QUEUE_NAME}" | awk '{print $2}'
+```
+
+
+### Gearman running or not
+
+```
+# Matches == running; no-match == not running
+gearadmin --status | grep '^\.'
+```
+
+### Number of workers processing the queue
+
+```
+# should be >= 1
+gearadmin --status | grep "^${QUEUE_NAME}" | awk '{print $4}'
+```
+
+
+
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