… 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 use my husband complaining that something stopped working and then me realizing it has been broken for days
Why you gotta call me out like this?
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.5V * 0.3A = 1.5W
Right you are. Still much cheaper than a laptop, let alone a server.
Oh absolutely
+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.
Adminforge also runs a free public ntfy server: https://ntfy.adminforge.de/
It’s not super difficult. They provide setup instructions and then you just connect to your new instance instead of the public one.
ntfy
Is “my users” a valid answer? xD
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.
E-mails and “I can tell by the way that it is”
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.
Also what I use on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Discord notifications also sometimes come with random delays because of Google bullshit, and ntfy supports UnifiedPush.
I use pushover for everything alerting, from home assistant to nagios.
A 1 time payment and you get 10,000 alerts a month
Just be aware that if you’re using the Android client, your phone/tablet will probably at some point put it into deep sleep which will prevent it from displaying notifications. You can (and should) change this in the app settings.
Uptime Kuma
I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.
Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.
Depends…
If someone’s just arrived home, the freezer door’s open, etc, then I’m using Home Assistant to speak / flash a light / etc.
If a device fails, then Uptime Kuma sends via to ntfy & gotify (I’m trying both atm to decide on one)
If it’s something I’ve (not) done, then my partner tells me (arms folded, stern look)
I am running an alertmanager instance which sends the alarms to telegram using a bot account.
Same, but I send them to my gotify instance.
All of my alerts go to Apprise, which sends it to Home Assistant. Home assistant allows me to either have silent notifications in the app I can look at later, or send as a push notification to my phone.
I’m old and don’t have any identifiable infos in my alerts so I use plain mail messages. If for some reason mail wasn’t a good option, I’d use ntfy
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
Gotify, super easy to setup, very basic but has everything I need.
