I added a cron gear with the whole purpose of running a script that can detect when my app goes down (jboss + haproxy). So far from I can tell, openshift just takes the gears down but doesn't bring them back up. There are no memory violations of any kind and the app uses a tiny fraction of the 1G allowed.
It appears that openshift shuts down ALL the gears including cron so I am back to square one. Is there a way to make sure my app is always up or can be restarted if needed? I could always monitor it from the outside the openshift environment but wondering if there is a better way. Thanks