Run your own status monitoring with HTTPS and instant alerts to Slack, Telegram, or email.
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4.7A quick, complete guide to self-hosting Uptime Kuma — the popular open-source uptime monitor — behind HTTPS, with alerting wired up so you actually find out when something goes down. This is for anyone who wants to know the moment a site, API, or service stops responding, without paying for a SaaS monitoring plan. You'll deploy Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose, persist its data, put it behind Nginx with a Let's Encrypt certificate, create your first HTTP and TCP monitors, and connect a notification channel (Slack, Telegram, Discord, or email) so alerts reach you immediately. The guide also covers the practical bits: choosing sensible check intervals and retry counts to avoid false alarms, building a public status page, monitoring SSL certificate expiry so you're warned before a cert lapses, and keeping the container updated and backed up. After this guide you'll have your own monitoring dashboard at your own domain, alerting you through your preferred channel within seconds of an outage, plus an optional public status page you can share with users. Lightweight enough to run alongside other services on a small VPS.
Very little — it runs comfortably on a 1 GB VPS alongside other small services. The guide notes the container's modest footprint.
Yes. It supports dozens of notification channels. The guide walks through wiring up the most common ones.
Yes. The guide shows how to create a shareable status page from your monitors.
Yes. Uptime Kuma tracks certificate expiry on HTTPS monitors; the guide shows how to enable that alert.
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