Automatically start a PM2 process on startup

PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7.

With the start command you can start your application.

pm2 start npm --name "my-application" -- start

Once your application is started you can check the status using status.

pm2 status

When the server restarts, the process will not start automatically. So, to fix this you need to save your process list using save.

pm2 save

Once your process list is saved you need to run startup.

pm2 startup

This command will output a command specific to your system’s init system. For example you can see something like this.

sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin pm2 startup <init-system> -u <user> --hp <home-path>

Finally, copy and run the command provided by the pm2 startup output.

After running the command, you can reboot your server and PM2 processes will be start automatically. Read more in PM2 documentation .