I run a few side projects and I’ve gone through different stages of monitoring them. First it was just checking manually if the site loads. Then I added a simple curl ping in cron. Then I started tracking response times, certificate expiry, even visual changes on pages.
At some point I realized I was spending more time building monitoring than the actual product. Classic trap.
Curious what other devs use for keeping an eye on their stuff. Do you go with a hosted service, self-host something like Uptime Kuma, or just wing it with scripts?
Isn’t there a bunch of good monitoring solutions and all you need to configure is, X should be reachable, or it should answer with a HTTP status code 200. And that’s the needed effort per service?
Idk which monitoring software is best of as today, here’s a list: https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#monitoring--status-pages
I guess there’s lots of edge cases, though. Testing for example whether some web form still triggers an email in your inbox is probably something that requires custom logic.