skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I self host matrix.org synapse and bridge all my chats into this. I have a room for alerts and have any issues go into there. I get this on my phone, desktop, etc.
Aside from the notification part, I don’t want anything on my phone. If there’s an outage at 3am for my self hosted stuff, I’m not getting up, I don’t even want it to wake me up. I like sleep.
All I need is that initial notification and maybe a little extra context as to what it is. I need to determine if I’m going to fix it “soon” or if it can wait until I have free time. Doing anything else on my phone is a hard no. I need a keyboard and mouse.
When digging into the problem all I usually look at are the logs.
Dodger2054@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
yeah, the matrix room approach is clean. that’s basically the notification hub I’m talking about, you just built it yourself with synapse + bridges. My selfhosted setup is quite simple and small, I would prefer avoid any overkill setup, that’s all ^^
and no argument on the fixing part. I’m not trying to get anyone debugging from a phone, that’s madness. logs on a real keyboard, every time.
the only bit I actually care about is the “fix now or leave it til morning” call when I’m away from home, plus enough context in the alert to make that call. sounds like yours already handles that fine.
so fair enough, if you’ve got synapse bridging everything you’re not the one who’d need this. realistically the target is people who’d never stand up a matrix server just for alerts. anyway thanks for spelling it out, that’s useful.