I would put a simple “grep mail.log || curl ntfy.sh” or something like that. Ntfy can send you alert on the phone if some check failed or passed. For pass just use && :) Simple and it works.

Yeah better fit but a bit of trouble to setup… What’s your opinion on Icinga? Never used it myself.

There will always be people in both cases thinking they are entitled to the work of others. There will be nice people who do nice by others too, rarely but that happens. We live in a wonderful world and not being an a…hole about things makes it better.

Give https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma a try. I’m planning to do the same for similar use case. Sensu (sensu.io) is a more sophisticated option but it requires more infrastructure and there is a bit of a learning curve with it.

XML or JSON - does it matter? Turtle is a turtle, same principals apply, just different structure. What happened to server side rendering? Oh, we do that with fancy frameworks and ton of JS now. All good.

Very cool! Thanks, saw some things I didn’t know about.