Ask HN: How to do dead simple heartbeat monitoring?

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  • uptime-kuma

    A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

  • You're looking for a dead man's switch. https://deadmanssnitch.com is a good hosted service or Uptime Kuma (https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) can be configured to do the same thing.

  • apprise

    Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

  • Or apprise for a whole bunch of notifications.

    https://github.com/caronc/apprise

  • Scout Monitoring

    Free Django app performance insights with Scout Monitoring. Get Scout setup in minutes, and let us sweat the small stuff. A couple lines in settings.py is all you need to start monitoring your apps. Sign up for our free tier today.

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  • opentelemetry-collector-contrib

    Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

  • you can add https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... at signoz's otel-collector which will scrape your service's endpoint periodically. If your service is down, this will give 5xx error and you can set an alert on that.

    Another alternative is to use an alert to notify on a metric being absent for sometime. Both of these should work

  • you can add https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... at signoz's otel-collector which will scrape your service's endpoint periodically. If your service is down, this will give 5xx error and you can set an alert on that.

    Another alternative is to use an alert to notify on a metric being absent for sometime. Both of these should work

  • hertzbeat

    Apache HertzBeat(incubating) is a real-time monitoring system with agentless, performance cluster, prometheus-compatible, custom monitoring and status page building capabilities.

  • Maybe can try use opensource project apache hertzbeat to monitoring heartbeat. https://github.com/apache/hertzbeat

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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