Meet Uptime Kuma, a Fancy Open Source Uptime Monitor for all your HomeLab Monitoring Needs

You’ve spun up lots of self-hosted services in your HomeLab but you haven’t set up monitoring and alerting yet. Well, be glad you waited because today well set up Uptime Kuma to do just that. Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted, open source, fancy uptime monitoring and alerting system. It can monitor HTTP, HTTP with keyword, TCP, Ping, and even DNS systems!

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

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Docker Setup

See this post on how to install docker and docker-compose

Running the container

If you’re using Docker compose

mkdir uptime-kuma
cd uptime-kuma
touch docker-compose.yml
nano docker-compose.yml # copy the contents from below
mkdir data
ls
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate

docker-compose.yml

---
version: "3.1"

services:
  uptime-kuma:
    image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
    container_name: uptime-kuma
    volumes:
      - /home/serveradmin/docker_volumes/uptime-kuma/data:/app/data
    ports:
      - 3001:3001
    restart: unless-stopped
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true

If you’re using Rancher, Portainer, Open Media Vault, Unraid, or anything else with a GUI, just copy and paste the environment variables, ports, and volumes from above into the form on the web page.

Links

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🚀 Don’t forget to check out the 🚀Launchpad repo with all of the quick start source files