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FWIW - if you just want to make sure your services are up - consider:

1) pagerduty.com or uptimerobot.com for remote monitoring to make sure you site(s) are up (and get alerts when they're not).

2) Datadog or New Relic if you want deeper monitoring (application performance, database performance, diagnostics/debugging.

3) Rollbar.com (site doesn't seem to respond) for site performance/errors.

4) Roll your own with Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/, or Nagios (https://www.nagios.org/)/IcingA. Or... strangely - I still use MRTG for a few perf monitoring things: https://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

5) If you want to monitor the status of deploys/builds - I love integrating CI/CD systems with Slack - very helpful.

Hope that helps - I've spent a lot of my career monitoring things, and have this mantra that I need to know about services down before customers call to tell me same.

(a lot of these have free tiers)



> Nagios, MRTG

I am used to rolling my own and use Nagios to make sure my servers and web sites are up and URLs and scripts functioning.

I used to use MRTG and RRDTool in days past when I was responsible for monitoring many servers, switches and routers.


Right there with you :)


StatusCake and PingMonit are two more good ones in the same vein as UptimeRobot. All have free tiers for testing and small scale/homelab use too.


There are plenty of options and plenty free pricing tiers. I use multiple ones for redundancy and comparison. One of them ended up producing false alerts, surprisingly.


FYI - if you would like some help setting up any of these - drop me a note (email in profile) - happy to advise, most of this is pretty easy.




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