Monitor EVERYTHING! Simple homelab monitoring for servers, websites, and more!

Setting up monitoring on your homelab is crucial. Get alerted when anything goes down, configure settings, and be confident your homelab services are all working appropriately. Uptime-Kuma github: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Uptime-Kuma installation instrucitons: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/%F0%9F%94%A7-How-to-Install Install NVM on ubuntu: sudo apt install curl, git curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash source ~/.bashrc Install Node 20 nvm install 20 Use Node 20 nvm use 20 check that node and npm are working: node -v npm -v Get uptime kuma and start setup git clone https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.git cd uptime-kuma npm run setup Install pm2 and logrotate npm install pm2 -g && pm2 install pm2-logrotate start your server with pm2 pm2 start server/server.js --name uptime-kuma setup startup service to ensure uptime kuma starts on boot pm2 save && pm2 startup ensure that you copy the command from your terminal and run it to get startup working appropriately Simple monitoring: DNS - use this to monitor any domains and DNS entries you want Ping - simply pings a machine and returns a response, good for checking that a machine is running HTTP(s) - use this to pull an actual webpage and check that you got a response ** A note about SSL When I initially was running uptime kuma at first it was confused about SSL certs and thought it was getting the wrong ones, the next day this magically resolved itself, so you can ignore ssl cert errors if you are confident your ssl certs are correct, and you can likely come back and unignore them later Grouping if your friend, setup groups to be able to monitor things more easily Setting up notifications: Discord go to your own discord channel right click on your channel name server settings -- integrations -- view webhooks -- new webhook copy the webhook URL save the webhook in discord in uptime kuma paste the webhook URL check default enabled if you want check apply on all existing monitors if you want test and save