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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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[โ€“] poop@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] 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.