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@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ There is one include script used by all checks:
 * [check_onehost](check_onehost.md)
 * [check_onevm](check_onevm.md)
 * [check_opencpu](check_opencpu.md)
-* [check_packages2install](check_packages2install)
-* check_php-fpm-status
+* [check_packages2install](check_packages2install.md)
+* [check_php-fpm-status](check_php-fpm-status.md)
 * check_proc_mem
 * check_proc_ressources
 * check_proc_zombie
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@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+# check_php-fpm-status
+
+## Introduction
+
+The check fetches several counters from php-fm-status page.
+
+### Requirements
+
+* wget
+* running PHP FPM service
+* enabled status page
+
+
+To enable a status page as http://localhost/fpm-status.php
+
+* Set pm.status_path in your pool config eg. /etc/php/8.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
+
+```txt
+[www]
+pm.status_path = /fpm-status.php
+```
+
+* In your webservice config limit the access; here a snippet for Apache 2.4:
+
+```txt
+<Location /fpm-status.php>
+  Require local
+</Location>
+```
+
+
+## Syntax
+
+```text
+> check_php-fpm-status -h
+______________________________________________________________________
+
+CHECK_PHP-FPM-STATUS
+v1.1
+
+(c) Institute for Medical Education - University of Bern
+Licence: GNU GPL 3
+
+https://os-docs.iml.unibe.ch/icinga-checks/Checks/check_php-fpm-status.html
+______________________________________________________________________
+
+The check fetches several counters from php-fm-status page.
+
+It shows a short service status in a single line and then the dump of the 
+status page.
+For performance data it echos:
+
+    php-fpm-active     count of active workers (="Rrunning" + "Reading headers")
+    php-fpm-maxactive  max active processes (sum of idle + running + reading)
+    php-fpm-idle       count of workers in state "Idle"
+    php-fpm-running    count of workers in state "Running"
+    php-fpm-reading    count of workers in state "Reading headers"
+    php-fpm-queue      count of items in the queue
+    php-fpm-maxqueue   max listen queue
+    php-fpm-slow       slow requests per min (since last execution of this check)
+    php-fpm-speed      requests per min (since last execution of this check)
+
+SYNTAX:
+check_php-fpm-status [-u URL]
+
+OPTIONS:
+
+    -u  url to fpm status page  (optional; default: localhost/status)
+    -h or --help   show this help.
+
+PARAMETERS:
+
+    None.
+
+EXAMPLE:
+check_php-fpm-status -u http://localhost/my-custom-fpm-statuspage.php
+
+```
+
+## Examples
+
+
+`./check_php-fpm-status -u localhost/fpm-status.php` returns
+
+```txt
+OK: PHP-FPM service: running: 1 .. active: 2 (max: 5) .. idle workers: 3 .. queue: 0 .. speed: 1 req per min ... slow: 0 req per min (0%; total: 0)
+Workers:               Running: 1
+               Reading headers: 1
+                          Idle: 3
+
+  Waiting for a worker (queue): 0 (max: 0)
+
+--- Status of service
+  "pool": "www"
+  "process manager": "dynamic"
+  "start time": 1692402233
+  "start since": 479084
+  "accepted conn": 10960
+  "listen queue": 0
+  "max listen queue": 0
+  "listen queue len": 0
+  "idle processes": 3
+  "active processes": 2
+  "total processes": 5
+  "max active processes": 5
+  "max children reached": 0
+  "slow requests": 0
+
+--- workers in state Running
+{"pid":588192,"state":"Running","start time":1692856027,"start since":25290,"requests":197,"request duration":42053467,"request method":"GET","request uri":"/fpm-status.php?full&json","content length":0,"user":"-","script":"-","last request cpu":0,"last request memory":0}
+
+ |php-fpm-active=2;;;0;0 php-fpm-maxactive=5;;;0;0 php-fpm-queue=0;;;0;0 php-fpm-maxqueue=0;;;0;0 php-fpm-slow=0;;;0;0 php-fpm-speed=1;;;0;0 php-fpm-idle=3;;;0;0 php-fpm-running=1;;;0;0 php-fpm-reading=1;;;0;0 
+ ```