monitoring - How to monitor Windows services

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A "might be enough" version of this is built into Windows. Look into the "Recovery" tab of the service properties, as available via services.msc.

You can act on a service fail with:

• "Restart the Service"
• "Run a Progam"
• "Restart the Computer"

"Run a program" could be a small script that sends a mail, for example.

If you want a bigger solution with an overview dashboard and all, there are plenty of system monitoring solutions available. For example SolarWinds IPMonitor comes to mind, or Nagios, or Cacti.