Monit thinks service is running, but there is no process

note: im on centos 7, monit is aparently 5.2.5, but I cannot select this from your submission form.

I have problems with services dying, but monit not noticing:

e.g,

[root@live-web ~]# cat /etc/monit.d/codedeploy 
check process codedeploy with pidfile /opt/codedeploy-agent/state/.pid/codedeploy-agent.pid
  start "/etc/init.d/codedeploy-agent start"
  stop  "/etc/init.d/codedeploy-agent stop"

[root@live-web ~]# ls -l /opt/codedeploy-agent/state/.pid/codedeploy-agent.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 16 16:48 /opt/codedeploy-agent/state/.pid/codedeploy-agent.pid

[root@live-web ~]# monit summary
The Monit daemon 5.2.5 uptime: 20h 42m 
...
Process 'codedeploy'                running
...

Process 'codedeploy'
  status                            running
  monitoring status                 monitored
  pid                               2621
  parent pid                        0
  uptime                            0m 
  children                          0
  memory kilobytes                  0
  memory kilobytes total            0
  memory percent                    0.0%
  memory percent total              0.0%
  cpu percent                       0.0%
  cpu percent total                 0.0%
  data collected                    Wed Feb 17 14:27:35 2016

But there is no such process:

[root@live-web ~]# ps -ef | grep 2621
root      7813  6932  0 14:28 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto 2621
[root@live-web ~]#

As a workaround I guess I can detect its using 0 bytes memory or parent is 0, but surely this is not right.

Cheers,

J.

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