Supervisor is simple. It’s easy to use. It lets me start, stop, and monitor all my little processes:

$ supervisorctl status
celeryd                          STOPPED    Apr 15 03:17 PM
dropboxd                         RUNNING    pid 8442, uptime 1 day, 1:04:48
rabbitmq                         STOPPED    Apr 15 03:17 PM
redis                            STOPPED    Apr 15 04:08 PM