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NodePing, albeit it's a bit prone to false alerts. But price (atleast at the time) matched with feature set and ease of use.
Never self host stuff like this, how can it monitor itself? How does it send alerts if the monitoring itself is down?
Further on case of NodePing, they offer a lot of locations etc. so it is infact orders of magnitude lower cost as well, instead of first coding it all yourself AND then maintaining a few dozen nodes in separate places and hosts. Just the accounting costs alone would be more than what nodeping costs
We also have internal monitoring tools for things for which nothing premade actually exists, but those are also tied to nodeping for actual final monitoring + alerts.
Ofc, as a provider our needs are different than average user here.
BetterUptime. Bought it with a LTD deal.
Uptime kuma all the way.
Uptime kuma running on Oracle free tier. And then monitoring that one with different providers like Hetrix.
For Nordic users there's also https://inleed.io/
2 uptimekuma vps on 2 Different Proxmox servers.
They monitor each other too, lol
Small hijack:
Those running Zabbix or CheckMK (or anything else that is selfhosted), is there a way to geographically distribute your monitoring infrastructure - eg, check from both the US and EU, without having 2 seperate installations?
I know that CheckMK has Distributed Monitors, but they're not quite the same thing.
Uptime Kuma has an open issue for this here.
Love Uptime Kuma, it is really underrated and they deserve more love
Lovely UI too
i use my hand which has 10 fingers
and ping
Not really, but you could install additional Zabbix proxies at each location and then add the host multiple times (only external checks, without agent) with different proxies. Zabbix itself, however, can be installed in an active-passive HA cluster: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/concepts/server/ha
I have my main zabbix server running at an external HA VPS provider monitored via HetrixTools. Then, I have zabbix proxies running at each site/location, monitored via the main Zabbix Server and HetrixTools. These proxies again are monitoring the local VPS/systems.
To have a reference for e.g. packetloss, some servers are monitored via a proxy at Oracle Cloud, too.
Last, some critical stuff, like hypervisors are additionally monitored via HetrixTools.
But, to be honest, this is just a hobby.
Those are free so I believe you.
Upptime on GitHub actions is clever, but yeh, I love Uptime Kuma, but Uptime robot has such a useful free tier that I really don't need anything else.
Hetrix!
Extremely easy to use, free for my usage and open-source agent.
I don’t need nor want anything more advanced.
We were using Nixstats for years but recently moved to Hetrix Tools. @Andreix runs a tight ship. We love it.
Imagine @Otus9051 said he uses like Pingdom or something.
I just log into all my servers every half hour-hour and hope it connects
Hetrix is the best, weird to not see them on this poll. Been using HetrixTools for a few years and they are one of those companies/services that I would never switch from, as long as they are around I will keep using them.
It's not mine. HetRIX is not HetNIX. When it originally started, HETNIX was the acronym for Hybrid Enterprise Tools for *NIX, which offered some hardware/software (since the hybrid) solutions for unix-based systems.
Later on, we switched to offering web and domain hosting, then extended to virtual/dedicated and added datacenter services as well.
i like femdom
How come? There is no “free” in that.
The only thing missing on Hetrix is a default notification "profile".
Everytime I set up a new server, I need to configure the notifcations thresholds for each resource (RAM, HDD, CPU, etc...) - it'd be nicer if they just came enabled out of the box.
You can mass edit and enable them, it's just a bit cumbersome.
Other than that, it's great.
My apologies, wrong flag!!!
Hetrix free is good enough for me
I love Zabbix, but considering a move to Prometheus
I have previously used it and can really suggest migration to the Prometheus - it performs much better. The only problem with it - there are no embedded rules, you have to search them or write on your own
kuma and hetrix all the way.
Do you find sometimes random drops of all traffic reporting all nodes down?
https://updown.io/ for normal uptime checking, and https://healthchecks.io/ for cron jobs.
No hasn't happened so far. The A1 in FRA is really good.
Hetrixtools
Thanks, might be some VPC misconfiguration on my part.