Submitted 2 weeks ago by cpbsy@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
… 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
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.
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.
Mostly Zabbix and my own email server. Way I figure if there’s something broken enough to take out the email internally I’m probably already dealing with a broader issue.
I personally chose ntfy over gotify and use it everywhere
I’m currently running both to decide which to use, what made you pick ntfy?
Honestly can’t remember at this point. I also tried both and could decide back when I was comparing. I think I started with gotify but struggled getting it working with one of my use cases and ntfy was able.
I don’t know if things have changed so I guess try both and see what best suits you
I use Munin for monitoring and XMPP for alerts via go-sendxmpp. That way I just configure munin like this:
contact.admin.command go-sendxmpp -u [bot_username] --password [bot_password] [contact]
And that sends me messages to my main XMPP account.
Thanks for the link to go-sendxmpp. It’s nice to have an xmpp-native way to send notifications
Was using ntfy.sh until it was AI slopped. Now I’m on apprise. But ntfy was superior.
What happened to ntfy? Care to elaborate a bit?
This release : github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/…/v2.18.0
This is the biggest release I’ve ever done on the server. It’s 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support.
The code was written by Cursor and Claude, but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me.
I don’t presently, but back when I was working on a large codebase and needing to know when a painfully long compile finished, I used an XMPP client and server.
I send my grafana alerts via Matrix (selfhosted) and Email (paid service), so either way it reaches me. Has worked out well enough so far
I have signal-cli set up on my home assistant and use that for notifications from home.assistant as well as uptime kuma, etc.
This is a neat idea. Thanks.
I host a matrix chat server with signal bridge and hit the matrix API to send messages. Basically the same thing but more hops. I might set that up too.
I’m using matrix directly for server notifications. I didn’t realize it could integrate with signal. What’s the use case there, either for server notifications or in general?
Uptime Kuma
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 done, then my partner tells me (arms folded, stern look)
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.
My current setup is Uptime Kuma sending notifications via Ntfy.
I need to resolve the issue of what to do when the internet is down (and thus Ntfy cannot be reached), but it has so far done everything I want it to do. It also means I get push notifications on all the devices I care to receive them on.
For the urgent notifications that require immediate action I use apprise -> Pager duty (free tier) because it can overwrite the DnD settings on my phone and wake me up if im asleep. For all other notifications apprise -> matrix.
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
monit + email
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| LTS | Long Term Support software version |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging |
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I created a slack workspace. Alerts sent via alert manager to a channel. Also has channels for ci runners, home assistant etc.
I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.
I use smtp_to_telegram
MQTT and a vibecoded flutter app that subscribes to topics and will publish acks so it mutes alerts on other devices in my networks. Nothing I could find on the appstore would stay active well enough to be trusted. This one is pretty bulletproof.
dihutenosa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
+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.
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Adminforge also runs a free public ntfy server: https://ntfy.adminforge.de/
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not super difficult. They provide setup instructions and then you just connect to your new instance instead of the public one.
Nick7903@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
5V * 0.3A = 1.5W
dihutenosa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Right you are. Still much cheaper than a laptop, let alone a server.
nope@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Have they fixed support for mTLS?