What Uptime Kuma is
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that checks whether your services are up and responding. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, Ping, DNS, Docker container and many other monitor types. It provides a clean dashboard showing uptime percentages, response times and incident history, plus customisable status pages you can share publicly.
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It supports notifications via email, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Pushover, webhooks and dozens of other channels — so you know immediately when something goes down.
Why I run it
Uptime Kuma gives me a quick, visual dashboard of whether every service in the lab is reachable and responding. While Zabbix provides deep infrastructure metrics, Uptime Kuma answers the simpler question: "is it up right now, and how fast is it responding?" It is lightweight, easy to configure, and the status page feature means I can see the health of the entire lab at a glance.
Docker Compose
services:
uptime-kuma:
image: louislam/uptime-kuma:latest
container_name: uptime-kuma
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "3001:3001"
volumes:
- ./data:/app/dataWhat this gives you
Instant visibility into whether every service is up, how fast it is responding, and when it last went down — all from a clean, self-hosted dashboard with no external dependencies.