Uptime Kuma

This is a series on the popular monitoring tool — Uptime Kuma. If you are not familiar, Uptime Kuma is a website monitoring tool (that can do so much more) that can be self-hosted on your servers.

Even though there are many monitoring tools out there, the benefit of Uptime Kuma is how easy it is to set up and how it also allows you to extend the code.

Uptime Kuma is an open-source project by Louis Lam and you find the GitHub project at — https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Throughout this series, we will go through running Uptime Kuma locally to setting up a proper solution that runs on a Kubernetes cluster. Here is an overview of what we intend to cover.

• Why Use Uptime Kuma?: Understanding the unique benefits of this tool.
• Running It Locally: Step-by-step instructions to get started on your machine.
• Setting Up Monitors: How to monitor different services and websites.
• Grouping Monitors: Organizing your monitors for better management.
• Sending Notifications to Different Apps: Configuring alerts to keep you informed.
• Creating a Status Page for Customers: Building a public-facing status page.
• Extending the Code: Developing your custom notification channels.
• Hosting It on Kubernetes: Scaling your monitoring solution.
• Where to Go From Here: Next steps and additional resources.

All the information is tried and tested as a result of a project that was assigned to me during my development journey. I hope this proves useful to you too.

That being said. Let us get things started!