… 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.
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 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 am running an alertmanager instance which sends the alarms to telegram using a bot account.
Same, but I send them to my gotify instance.
ntfy
I created a slack workspace. Alerts sent via alert manager to a channel. Also has channels for ci runners, home assistant etc.
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 : https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/tag/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 send my grafana alerts via Matrix (selfhosted) and Email (paid service), so either way it reaches me. Has worked out well enough so far
zabbix with ntfy for short term alerts and a telegram bot for long-term alerts.
monit + email
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
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.
All of my alerts go to Apprise, which sends it to Home Assistant. Home assistant allows me to either have silent notifications in the app I can look at later, or send as a push notification to my phone.
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?
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.
