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What's your approach to monitoring side projects without overengineering it? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by indidev@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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I run a few side projects and I've gone through different stages of monitoring them. First it was just checking manually if the site loads. Then I added a simple curl ping in cron. Then I started tracking response times, certificate expiry, even visual changes on pages.

At some point I realized I was spending more time building monitoring than the actual product. Classic trap.

Curious what other devs use for keeping an eye on their stuff. Do you go with a hosted service, self-host something like Uptime Kuma, or just wing it with scripts?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Isn't there a bunch of good monitoring solutions and all you need to configure is, X should be reachable, or it should answer with a HTTP status code 200. And that's the needed effort per service?

Idk which monitoring software is best of as today, here's a list: https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#monitoring--status-pages

I guess there's lots of edge cases, though. Testing whether some web form still triggers an email in your inbox is probably something that requires custom logic.