Question about monitoring a process and restarting it automatically

[felixandrea]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a RoboTask automation where I need to monitor a specific Windows application and automatically restart it if it stops responding or closes unexpectedly.

Ideally, the task would:

Check whether the process is running at regular intervals.
Detect if the application is no longer responding.
Close/terminate the process if necessary.
Launch the application again.
Write a timestamp and status to a log file so I can see when a restart occurred.

I can handle the basic process start/stop actions, but I'm not sure what the most reliable way is to detect a hung/not responding application rather than simply checking whether the process exists.

Has anyone implemented something similar in RoboTask? What actions or conditions would you recommend for this?

Thanks in advance!

[Rukbunker]

Use "Wait for Process Finish" and mention your exe. If exit code or variable is met, defined by you, add the actions afterwards. Or, while loop, use system variable {IsProcessExists(proces.exe)}, if exists = true, do nothing, else actions defined by you. Cyclic trigger with a delay in the task.

"Always Up" is an external tool which can do what you want as well, if Robotask doesn't fullfill your needs.