Manage Astra Service

Learn how to control Astra services on your server: start, stop, restart, check logs, and run multiple instances for better performance and stability.

Tip

Most Linux distributions use systemd to manage services. It controls whether services run, restart automatically on system startup, and provides access to service logs.

Launch additional services

When you first launch Astra service with astra init command, default service name is astra and web interface port is 8000.

You can launch multiple Astra services on your server. Each service runs as a separate process with its own configuration and port. Common reasons to use multiple services:

• Load distribution: Split channels across separate processes to balance resource usage
• Improved stability: Isolate problematic channels that might affect other channels if they run in the same process

To create an additional service:

astra init 8002 astra2

Service name will be astra2 with the web interface port 8002.

Service management

In this example service name is default: astra2

Command	Description
systemctl restart astra2	Restart service
systemctl start astra2	Start service
systemctl stop astra2	Stop service
systemctl status astra2	Service status
systemctl enable astra2	Launch service on system startup
systemctl disable astra2	Disable autorun
journalctl -fu astra2	Service logs

Remove service

Before removing service, stop it and turn off autorun:

systemctl stop astra2
systemctl disable astra2

Then, remove service from systemd:

astra remove astra2

This command remove service and log files, while keeping configuration and binary files.