Self hosted uptime monitor for tiny yearly vps?

lowendmeow

Hey, I have one of those cheap yearly VPSes that's idling and I'd like to turn it into an uptime monitor for my other idling VPSes haha. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite self hosted solution for this? That's also easy on resources or I can limit cpu in a docker container. Thanks

Freek

Statping is one I know of; https://github.com/statping/statping

willie

Nagios is old school but don't people still use it?

thagoat

https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon

yoursunny

I want to make a scenic route monitoring setup with all my boxes:

• iptables rule on vpsk would receive packets from vpsk-1 and forward it to vpsk+1 (if k=9 forward to vps0).
• I only need userspace program on vps0: it periodically transmits a packet to vps1 and expect the same packet to come back from vps9.

Naix

@Neoon's Night-Sky, didn't try it before but it looks good.

rcy026

@willie said:
Nagios is old school but don't people still use it?

We sure do. And Naemon. And Icinga.

alwyzon

Statping, as referenced by Freek already, is really nice. If you are a PHP developer by any chance and are looking to customise your uptime monitor, you might also want to consider Spaties uptime monitor (see also). It's Laravel-based and rather simplistic, but that provides a nice base to add your own features - especially if you are already familiar with the Laravel framework.

seenu

recently there is something like upptime which uses github actions, i like the idea more. the dev is innovative guy

you can give it a try

lowendmeow

Thanks so much for the options, guys! I thought for some reason there would be more options out there or some new up and coming ones.

I did notice the Upptime one that uses github actions but I'm not a fan of github, especially since Microsoft took over. But I think it's a smart serverless solution!

I saw that Statping seemed to be the most popular one and is already included in HomelabOS that I used on one of my servers. Thanks for the PHP option. I have a friend who is a fan of Laravel and I'll send it to him.

Just found this, what do you guys think, anyone tried it? https://github.com/brotandgames/ciao

Hakim

Statping has multiple checking options. Ciao seems to have only one.

lowendmeow

@Hakim said:
Statping has multiple checking options. Ciao seems to have only one.

yeah I noticed that. I think I'll go with statping for now. but I like Ciao's ui