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A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

45 mentions on Hacker News by 36 people: 5 stories, 40 comments · first 2021-08-03 · latest 2026-10-08

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  1. …- https://github.com/traefik/traefik Umami - https://github.com/umami-software/umami Uptime Kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Vikunja - https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja wg-easy - https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy…
  2. What I did is make the scripts ping uptime kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma This has two advantages. First, if cron jobs are not running at all for some reason, the timeout will notify you. Second, you can also manually trigger…
  3. …of certificate validity. Plug for Uptime Kuma, they support notifications ahead of expiry: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Kind of cool to have an uptime monitoring tool that also had an option like that, two birds one stone and…
    comment by KronisLV · 2025-12-28 · in The Dangers of SSL Certificates
  4. > Powered by Uptime Kuma Uptime Kuma is really nice: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Supports all sorts of alerts and can even tell you if it ever looks like your TLS certs will soon expire (if any automation is broken, or you use…
    comment by KronisLV · 2025-12-03 · in Codeberg is down
  5. …FOSS, not sure if it is missing any features you might be expecting. Very easy to set up as well. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  6. …events. Your could manually built your own custom ones based on the same framework[2] though. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/Badge [2] https://shields.io/
  7. Can recommend Uptime Kuma for this purpose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  8. …and was like "hmmm, that UI looks familiar". I'm pretty sure that's just a frontend for Uptime Kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  9. …be an instance of Uptime Kuma, which is a pretty great OSS for uptime monitoring and Dashboarding. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
    comment by sMarsIntruder · 2025-08-18 · in Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
  10. I use uptime-kuma[1] with notifications sent out through the included Apprise integration[2] 1. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma 2. https://github.com/caronc/apprise
    comment by hoherd · 2025-07-22 · in LetsEncrypt Outage
  11. Not that I think that an API is fundamental to a monitoring tool, but it happens to have one: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/API-Documentati...
    comment by danesparza · 2025-07-14 · in Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
  12. Uptime Kuma ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ). With email notifications. So much simpler, and free.
    comment by danesparza · 2025-07-13 · in Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
  13. …the default in their READMEs and docker-compose.yml files because UsEr cOnVeNiEnCe, e.g. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/pull/3002 closed WONTFIX
    comment by smarx007 · 2025-01-05 · in A story on home server security
  14. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
    comment by buzzier · 2024-11-26 · in Fly.io outage – resolved
  15. …Go 1.19 and they don't feel the need to update because "OS level bugs are seldomely exploitable" https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/issues/4885 So host it on a separate machine and don't put any secrets in there
  16. Sigh Nix users. I need to run uptime kuma, Here is Docker Compose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/blob/1.23.X/docker/d... What is equivalent in Nix?
  17. If you’d like something with a GUI for configuration, I’ve been using [Uptime Kuma]( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ) for a couple years now with an “internal” status page for all services in my homelab, and a “public” page for…
  18. I run Uptime Kuma, it's a simple but extensible set of monitors but perfect for a home network. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  19. …for a dead man's switch. https://deadmanssnitch.com is a good hosted service or Uptime Kuma ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ) can be configured to do the same thing.
  20. …the open-source Uptime Kuma for this (actually for almost everything else what UptimeRobot knows) https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  21. …or novel. I never cared enough to actually look and see what they did. I use uptime-kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma - it obviously does a fraction of what these other things do but it does everything I need.
  22. Uptime Kuma[1] has a certificate expiry notification feature. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
    comment by supriyo-biswas · 2024-03-30 · in About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
  23. …certificate expiration; you can also enable it to show you how many days are left until it expires. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
    comment by rabbitofdeath · 2024-02-27 · in Show HN: Free Certificate Monitoring via RSS
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    Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool
    story by gslin · 2024-02-17 · 0 comments
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    Uptime-Kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
    story by thunderbong · 2024-01-23 · 0 comments
  26. …to Portainer and I'm loving it. It seems to fit perfectly in my flow. Code and more info: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma (Not affiliated, just a happy user)
  27. Uptime Kuma needs a lot of help with documentation https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  28. …which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  29. …all my homelab and Kubernetes services. It's really awesome. How does OpenStatus compare to it? [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  30. …this purpose: request an URL at some interval repeatedly. Recommend to use this with uptime-kuma ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma )
    comment by singee · 2023-09-13 · in A simple server uptime monitor util
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    story by zinxq · 2023-08-17 · 0 comments
  32. …monitor, and in a cron job on your server(s), send heartbeat to it when everything is working. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma [2] https://ntfy.sh/
  33. …we looked for PagerDuty alternatives and found a fantastic open-source project called Uptime Kuma: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Uptime Kuma is one of the few open-source projects that feels like a commercial product: polished…
  34. …analysis, with SonarQube: https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/ - Uptime monitoring, with Uptime Kuma: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma PUBLICLY (in rented VPSes) - Code repositories, with Gitea: https://gitea.io/en-us/ - CI, with…
    comment by KronisLV · 2023-01-06 · in Ask HN: What's on your home server?
  35. …something like Uptime Kuma allows you to have all sorts of reminders, including certificate expiry: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma (note: Uptime Kuma does not batch those notifications, I got about 30 messages in Slack at the same…
  36. …Has anyone looked at their data sharing/selling policies? How does it compare with other tools ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ) ? Looks very impressive.
  37. …Uptime Kuma most useful for me. Alerts work well and it is not too complicated for simple things. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
  38. I installed Uptime Kuma ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ) on my dokku paas to monitor my dokku apps. It works great. It is great for pure HTTP services, but it can be used against things like RTMP servers because it also permits…
    comment by xrd · 2022-07-09 · in Monitoring tiny web services
  39. …some others might prefer Hetzner, or Scaleway Stardust instances), setup Uptime Kuma on it ( https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ), now have checks every 5 minutes against 30+ URLs (could easily do each minute, but don't need that sort…
    comment by KronisLV · 2022-07-09 · in Monitoring tiny web services
  40. …is up again. Actually I self-host more service myself and it was use to monitor those services. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
    comment by chazeon · 2022-07-08 · in Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
  41. …boring, but I figured I'd share nonetheless: - for uptime monitoring itself, I use Uptime Kuma: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma - it's a reasonably simple and lightweight piece of software, with nice alerting capabilities - I have…
  42. …to be merged). It also has status dashboards with incidents. [0] https://healthchecks.io/ [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma [3] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
  43. …as an alternative which has recently become more popular in the self-hosting/homelabbing community. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
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    A fancy open-source self-hosted monitoring tool
    story by Brajeshwar · 2021-10-09 · 5 comments
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    story by sccxy · 2021-08-03 · 0 comments