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How to get a phone notification if my VPS goes offline? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by oeuf@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What are my options for getting alerts on my android phone if services on my VPS becoming unresponsive?

My first thought is a simple app that periodically pings domains and gives a notification if any fail. Is there an open source app for that?

Or something else?

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Uptime Kuma has a number of notification options.

I just had to set one up because the Oracle free tier is hot garbage and needs resetting every day or two.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I use uptime Kuma with signal-cli for notifications - it's been rock solid. I also have anotger uptime kuma that uses email as notification option to monitor my primary uptime kuma and the signal-cli.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

+1 for Uptime Kuma, I use it with ntfy. If OP doesn't want a self hosted solution, there's UptimeRobot - essentially SAAS Uptime Kuma, but with a free tier.

[–] poop@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't touched my Oracle in months. What exactly is happening?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No idea. The dashboard says it's running and fine, sometimes the shell console is ok, sometimes it's also bogged down, but the instance is completely non-responsive from outside. The other instance I have in the same tenancy but a different fault domain is perfectly fine, so I don't know if that's related somehow. I'm running Pangolin on it to forward a couple things, one of them is higher throughput than I had expected, but rebooting makes it come back, so I don't think they're throttling me.

I'm kind of at a loss, but I threw together a webhook to use their API to reboot it when it stops responding and that seems to be working while not actually addressing whatever the root cause is.