Submitted 4 hours ago by cpbsy@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
… specifically, the thing to deliver alerts from your servers to your phone or whatever. I’m using Discord, because it doesn’t depend on my own infrastructure, and I can make a private “alerts” channel on my private server. But I’d like to switch to something that’s not Discord. I’m using alertmanager, FWIW.
I personally chose ntfy over gotify and use it everywhere
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| LTS | Long Term Support software version |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging |
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I created a slack workspace. Alerts sent via alert manager to a channel. Also has channels for ci runners, home assistant etc.
ntfy, self-hosted offsite on an old phone, it takes around 300mA, ie.less than a watt. ntfy app on my phone. Wireguard between them.
+1 for ntfy it’s great. I’m using their free servers though and it just routes my curl’d alerts to the phone app. Will have to look into self hosting it that sounds neat, love that you repurposed an old phone for that.
It’s not super difficult. They provide setup instructions and then you just connect to your new instance instead of the public one.
Is “my users” a valid answer? xD
E-mails and “I can tell by the way that it is”
Yes. My stuff is only for me, so the only way I find out something isn’t working is when I go to use it. But that almost never happens.
The only actual notifications I get is for updates.
I like ntfy.sh a lot. Sending a notification is a simple cURL request, and they have mobile apps. Also I gotta mention healthchecks.io for any cron job or uptime monitoring, which has ntfy.sh support built in.
Exactly what I use. Both are very low footprint, so they sit on an old raspberry pi, with the rest of the services on the n100. Works great for me.
I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.
I use smtp_to_telegram
ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 4 hours ago I use Munin for monitoring and XMPP for alerts via go-sendxmpp. That way I just configure munin like this:
contact.admin.command go-sendxmpp -u [bot_username] --password [bot_password] [contact]
And that sends me messages to my main XMPP account.
Mostly Zabbix and my own email server. Way I figure if there’s something broken enough to take out the email internally I’m probably already dealing with a broader issue.
Peekaping hooked into home assistant for notifications.
I have signal-cli set up on my home assistant and use that for notifications from home.assistant as well as uptime kuma, etc.
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago This is a neat idea. Thanks.
I host a matrix chat server with signal bridge and hit the matrix API to send messages. Basically the same thing but more hops. I might set that up too.
sk@utsukta.org 4 hours ago I’m using a Uptime Kuma container which can be configured to alert through just about anything you like.
I send my grafana alerts via Matrix (selfhosted) and Email (paid service), so either way it reaches me. Has worked out well enough so far