Monitoring with Uptime Kuma and Grafana

You can't fix what you don't see. Two complementary self-hosted tools cover the basics: Uptime Kuma for "is it up?" and Grafana for "how is it doing?"

#Uptime Kuma — status & alerts

A friendly uptime monitor: HTTP/TCP/ping checks, a status page, and alerts to Discord, ntfy, email, etc.

services:
  uptime-kuma:
    image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes: ["kuma:/app/data"]
    ports: ["127.0.0.1:3001:3001"]
volumes: { kuma: {} }

#Grafana — metrics & dashboards

For trends (CPU, RAM, request rates), pair Grafana with a metrics source:

#What to monitor first

• Each service's uptime + a public status page.
• Disk space (the #1 silent killer).
• Backups succeeding (Database Backups and Replication).
• Auth failures / anomalies (Log Analysis and SIEM).

Start with Uptime Kuma today; add Grafana when you want history and trends.

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