Documentation for SystemD
Add documentation references for SystemD .service files
Improved documentation
Not all services are well known, or well documented. The on-call personnel may not be the one responsible for the architecture or the day-to-day operations for that server.
You don’t need to edit the original unit file, you can add a drop-in file in /etc/systemd/system/<yourservice>.d/<something>.conf:
The content of the “Documentation=” directive is visible when running “systemctl status servicename”. This helps your on-call person, when the alarm goes off, to figure out what is wrong, and how to fix it. Add your own service documentation, and a link to the upstream documentation.
The output will look like this:
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