Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that provides a beautiful status page for tracking the uptime and performance of your websites, APIs, and services. It offers real-time monitoring with notifications.

Key features:
- HTTP(s) monitoring
- TCP port monitoring
- Ping monitoring
- DNS monitoring
- Certificate expiration monitoring
- Status pages
- Multiple notification methods
- Beautiful dashboard
- Public status pages

Uptime Kuma keeps me informed about my infrastructure:

Service Monitoring: I monitor all my self-hosted services and websites, getting instant notifications if anything goes down. This helps me maintain high availability.

Status Page: I can create public status pages to show the health of my services to users, building trust and transparency.

Early Problem Detection: By monitoring response times and availability, I can detect issues before they become critical problems.

Certificate Management: Uptime Kuma alerts me when SSL certificates are about to expire, preventing service interruptions.

Infrastructure Awareness: Having a central dashboard showing the status of all my services gives me a clear overview of my infrastructure health.

Professional Image: Public status pages show that I take reliability seriously, which is important for professional services.

Learning Tool: Monitoring my services has taught me about reliability, redundancy, and infrastructure best practices.