I’ve used the free tier of https://uptimerobot.com/ - just because of the free text notifications (if my server goes down, so does my email 😞 - so that’s not much help)
If you have another box somewhere that you can use, Uptime Kuma is a fantastic self-hosted alternative.
— Jonathan On Oct 16, 2023, at 18:49, Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 6:38 PM L K via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I have a home arch linux server I use for various hobbiest services. I'd like to get notified via email if it goes down. I usually would run such things on my server but... well.. you see my dilemma :D. Can anyone recommend a service they have used for such? I'd prefer a pull-based one (like issuing a web request from the server) for security. I have a bad association with pagerduty :P.
So, if you're willing to pay there are many options for this. If youwant it to be free then the options are pretty limited.Grafana cloud has a free tier, and it can generate alerts if it losescontact with an agent I believe. The agent would be able to grabprometheus metrics and logs and such. The free tier of that will notdo things like http gets, but the paid version will. It candefinitely send email.I think I used to use Monitoris, but something tells me their freetier is no longer a thing.Obviously cloud-based monitoring has costs and limited monetizationoptions. When it is free it is usually a loss leader to try to getyou to buy their paid tiers, which typically offer more granularity,hosts, capabilities, etc.Now, for self-hosted FOSS software there are a bunch of options, andyou could of course just host that in the cloud yourself (VPS, VM,whatever), but that isn't going to be free either.Right now I'm not using anything cloud-based. I am self-hostingGrafana on k8s but if I lose internet/etc or k8s really gets messed upI might not get an alert. Sorry I can't be too much more helpful...-- Rich___________________________________________________________________________Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.orgAnnouncements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announceGeneral Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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