http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/

Once PM2 is started, it will automatically create these folders:

• $HOME/.pm2 will contain all PM2 related files
• $HOME/.pm2/logs will contain all applications logs
• $HOME/.pm2/pids will contain all applications pids
• $HOME/.pm2/pm2.log PM2 logs
• $HOME/.pm2/pm2.pid PM2 pid
• $HOME/.pm2/rpc.sock Socket file for remote commands
• $HOME/.pm2/pub.sock Socket file for publishable events
• $HOME/.pm2/conf.js PM2 Configuration

In Windows, the $HOME environment variable can be $HOMEDRIVE + $HOMEPATH (link)

# Fork mode
pm2 start app.js --name my-api # Name process

# Cluster mode
pm2 start app.js -i 0        # Will start maximum processes with LB depending on available CPUs
pm2 start app.js -i max      # Same as above, but deprecated.

# Listing

pm2 list               # Display all processes status
pm2 jlist              # Print process list in raw JSON
pm2 prettylist         # Print process list in beautified JSON

pm2 describe 0         # Display all informations about a specific process

pm2 monit              # Monitor all processes

# Logs

pm2 logs [--raw]       # Display all processes logs in streaming
pm2 flush              # Empty all log files
pm2 reloadLogs         # Reload all logs

# Actions

pm2 stop all           # Stop all processes
pm2 restart all        # Restart all processes

pm2 reload all         # Will 0s downtime reload (for NETWORKED apps)

pm2 stop 0             # Stop specific process id
pm2 restart 0          # Restart specific process id

pm2 delete 0           # Will remove process from pm2 list
pm2 delete all         # Will remove all processes from pm2 list

# Misc

pm2 reset <process>    # Reset meta data (restarted time...)
pm2 updatePM2          # Update in memory pm2
pm2 ping               # Ensure pm2 daemon has been launched
pm2 sendSignal SIGUSR2 my-app # Send system signal to script
pm2 start app.js --no-daemon
pm2 start app.js --no-vizion
pm2 start app.js --no-autorestart

pm2 start app.js           # Start app.js

pm2 start app.js -- -a 23  # Pass arguments '-a 23' argument to app.js script

pm2 start app.js --name serverone # Start a process and name it as serverone
                                    # you can now stop the process by doing
                                    # pm2 stop serverone

pm2 start app.js --node-args="--debug=7001" # --node-args to pass options to node V8

pm2 start app.js -i 0             # Start maximum processes depending on available CPUs (cluster mode)

pm2 start app.js --log-date-format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z"    # Log will be prefixed with custom time format

pm2 start app.json                # Start processes with options declared in app.json
                                    # Go to chapter Multi process JSON declaration for more

pm2 start app.js -e err.log -o out.log  # Start and specify error and out log

For scripts in other languages:

pm2 start echo.pl --interpreter=perl

pm2 start echo.coffee
pm2 start echo.php
pm2 start echo.py
pm2 start echo.sh
pm2 start echo.rb
The interpreter is set by default with this equivalence:

{
  ".sh": "bash",
  ".py": "python",
  ".rb": "ruby",
  ".coffee" : "coffee",
  ".php": "php",
  ".pl" : "perl",
  ".js" : "node"
}