=== Children Check === List the max children configuration for all php-fpm pools: grep -v '^;\|^$' /etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf | awk '/pm.max_children/' Example output: /etc/php-fpm.d/site1.conf:pm.max_children = 300 /etc/php-fpm.d/site2.conf:pm.max_children = 10 /etc/php-fpm.d/site3.conf:pm.max_children = 300 /etc/php-fpm.d/site4.conf:pm.max_children = 14 /etc/php-fpm.d/site5.conf:pm.max_children = 14 /etc/php-fpm.d/site6.conf:pm.max_children = 14 /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf:pm.max_children = 50 \\ === Process Check === Check the amount of processes running for each php-fpm pool: ps aux --sort:-rss | awk '/php-fpm/ {print $1, $8, $11, $13}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn Example output: 137 502 S php-fpm: site2.com 95 502 S php-fpm: site1.co.uk 10 502 S php-fpm: site4.com 8 502 S php-fpm: site6.co.uk 7 502 S php-fpm: site3.co.uk 5 apache S php-fpm: www \\ === Netstat Check === netstat -pant | awk '/fpm/ {print $5, $6, $7}' | awk -F'[: /]' '{print $1, $3, $5}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn Example output: 10 10.x.x.x ESTABLISHED php-fpm 7 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISHED php-fpm 6 x.x.x.x SYN_SENT php-fpm 3 127.0.0.1 CLOSE_WAIT php-fpm 1 0.0.0.0 LISTEN php-fpm \\ \\ \\ \\ Doesnt work yet: awk '!/^;|^$/ && /pm.max_children/' /etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf