A lot of zombie processes created by monit

[shanna2k24]

1399258 root      20   0  173.5m  33.5m   0.0   0.0   0:00.24 S      `- php-fpm: master process (/etc/php7/php-fpm.conf)
1400768 root      20   0    4.9m   1.5m   0.0   0.0   0:01.17 S          `- monit -c /etc/monitrc
3241229 root      20   0    0.0m   0.0m   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 Z              `- [bash] <defunct>

Seeing a lot of zombie processes being created by your shipped monit configuration.
I don't know how to debug this. Could you maybe give me some hints?

[tspicer]

what command are you running to list zombie processes? ps aux | grep -w Z?
Also, what version are you running? The latest php8?