louislam/uptime-kuma
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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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…- 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…
comment by justsomehuman · 2026-10-08 · in Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? -
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…
comment by kevin061 · 2026-01-23 · in Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to? -
…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 -
> 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 -
…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
comment by arcanemachiner · 2025-11-30 · in Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux -
…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/
comment by FinnKuhn · 2025-11-19 · in Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues -
Can recommend Uptime Kuma for this purpose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by FinnKuhn · 2025-11-18 · in Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues -
…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
comment by jychang · 2025-09-05 · in Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors -
…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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
…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 -
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by buzzier · 2024-11-26 · in Fly.io outage – resolved -
…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
comment by yread · 2024-11-26 · in Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan -
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?
comment by stackskipton · 2024-09-06 · in Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned -
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…
comment by alargemoose · 2024-09-05 · in Tinystatus: A tiny status page generated by a Python script -
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
comment by pnw · 2024-08-18 · in Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers? -
…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.
comment by cweagans · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring? -
…the open-source Uptime Kuma for this (actually for almost everything else what UptimeRobot knows) https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by tibu · 2024-04-25 · in Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects -
…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.
comment by blitzar · 2024-04-02 · in Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative -
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 -
…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: A fancy self-hosted monitoring toolstory by thunderbong · 2024-01-23 · 0 comments
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…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)
comment by 037 · 2024-01-14 · in Dockge: Clean Self-Hosted Docker Compose Manager by the Creator of Uptime Kuma -
Uptime Kuma needs a lot of help with documentation https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by ingoaf · 2023-11-04 · in Ask HN: Who's looking for contributors for OSS Projects -
…which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN · 2023-10-03 · in Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements -
…all my homelab and Kubernetes services. It's really awesome. How does OpenStatus compare to it? [1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by nodesocket · 2023-10-02 · in Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements -
…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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Uptime Kuma: An easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring toolstory by zinxq · 2023-08-17 · 0 comments
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…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/
comment by veyh · 2023-08-01 · in Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services? -
…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…
comment by justinmayer · 2023-04-23 · in Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself -
…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? -
…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…
comment by KronisLV · 2023-01-04 · in I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site -
…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.
comment by infocollector · 2022-09-14 · in Explaining modern server monitoring stacks for self-hosting -
…Uptime Kuma most useful for me. Alerts work well and it is not too complicated for simple things. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by sccxy · 2022-09-14 · in Explaining modern server monitoring stacks for self-hosting -
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 -
…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 -
…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? -
…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…
comment by KronisLV · 2022-06-30 · in Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub -
…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/
comment by kayson · 2022-05-15 · in Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service -
…as an alternative which has recently become more popular in the self-hosting/homelabbing community. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
comment by kayson · 2021-10-16 · in Status Page for monitoring your websites and applications with beautiful graphs -
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