Pm2 Nodejs Production Process Manager

---
name: "PM2 Node.js Production Process Manager with Load Balancing"
slug: "pm2-nodejs-production-process-manager"
description: "PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js and Bun applications with a built-in load balancer. With over 42,000 GitHub stars and millions of weekly npm downloads, it keeps applications alive forever, enables zero-downtime reloads, and provides comprehensive process monitoring with cluster mode support."
github_stars: 43034
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/Unitech/pm2"
author: "Unitech"
category: "Monitoring & Alerts"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "Unitech/pm2"
  github_stars: 43034
  npm_package: "pm2"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 2999111
---

# PM2 Node.js Production Process Manager with Load Balancing

PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js and Bun applications with a built-in load balancer. It keeps applications alive forever, enables zero-downtime reloads, and provides comprehensive process monitoring with cluster mode support.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ npm install pm2 -g
- RUN npm install pm2 -g
- $ npm install pm2@latest -g

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js/Bun applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin t...
- PM2 is constantly assailed by [a comprehensive test suite](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/actions/workflows/node.js.yml).
- Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Supports Node.js 18+ and Bun 1+.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [More about Process Management](https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/process-management/)
- [More information about how PM2 makes clustering easy](https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/cluster-mode/)
- [More about log management](https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/log-management/)

- Source: https://github.com/Unitech/pm2
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unitech/pm2/HEAD/README.md

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