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Running services, network usage, memory usage, bandwidth, disk I/O, successful logins, whether the thing is even alive, etc...
So far my only method has been "hope and pray".

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uptime Kuma, only really care if it's up or not. Got about 30 services monitored, sending notifications to Signal.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah cool! How do you get notifications sent to signal. I've always avoided because i didnt like emails of my home setup leaving home in clear

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

Its very finicky to setup, but once you get it working its pretty good. Sometimes needs to be reauthenticated though.

Kuma notification settings:

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like i don't have to expose ports or anything like that, right?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Nope, your uptime kuma speaks to it directly, and it basically acts as a signal client for you.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Edit: ah, i see! It's kuma that allows you to i guess by adding new device on phone Signal