Hey all, For context, I am self-hosting a lot of different applications on a headless server and some of them are just scripts scraping content or doing automatic tasks.
I’ve been wondering for some time about how I should handle errors and how to be notified when they happen.
Currently, I need to connect to the server and read my logs to know that something has gone wrong. But I would like to get near instant notifications on my phone or computer.
I know I could send emails, try to use signal-cli or other messaging services but some of you might have better ideas.
Should I use one of these or is there some great technology I have never heard of?
Might be overkill but you could setup and run a Jenkins server to run your scripts and use one of the many notification plugins that are available.
You could setup a status monitoring system and then configured it to send out messages for critical alerts. For example, I’m using Vigil to monitor my services and it’s configured to send email alerts when something is down and then sms alerts when things are still down for too long (in case I didn’t read the email).
Didn’t know grafana provided this kind of feature. I don’t think i’m going to use it but it’s really good to know. Thanks !
Thanks. I don’t work on it full time, no. It’s a side gig project I’ve been doing for a year and a half. I recently added paid plans to get a little side income, but it’s not really taken off. Likely because the free tier is too generous hehe.
Fair enough! Do you cover your costs for it? I see you’ve got live stats - what’s your monitoring stack?
This is just really cool, I’d love to build an actually useful service like this and have it at least pay for itself but so many things are so daunting! (Payments, SRE, having a nice front end, …)
