… specifically, the thing to deliver alerts from your servers to your phone or whatever. I’m using Discord, because it doesn’t depend on my own infrastructure, and I can make a private “alerts” channel on my private server. But I’d like to switch to something that’s not Discord. I’m using alertmanager, FWIW.
ntfy, self-hosted offsite on an old phone, it takes around 300mA, ie.less than a watt.
ntfy app on my phone.
Wireguard between them.+1 for ntfy it’s great. I’m using their free servers though and it just routes my curl’d alerts to the phone app. Will have to look into self hosting it that sounds neat, love that you repurposed an old phone for that.
Adminforge also runs a free public ntfy server: https://ntfy.adminforge.de/
It’s not super difficult. They provide setup instructions and then you just connect to your new instance instead of the public one.
5V * 0.3A = 1.5W
Right you are. Still much cheaper than a laptop, let alone a server.
Oh absolutely
Have they fixed support for mTLS?
I use my husband complaining that something stopped working and then me realizing it has been broken for days
Why you gotta call me out like this?
I like ntfy.sh a lot. Sending a notification is a simple cURL request, and they have mobile apps. Also I gotta mention healthchecks.io for any cron job or uptime monitoring, which has ntfy.sh support built in.
Exactly what I use. Both are very low footprint, so they sit on an old raspberry pi, with the rest of the services on the n100. Works great for me.
Also what I use on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Discord notifications also sometimes come with random delays because of Google bullshit, and ntfy supports UnifiedPush.
ntfy
I’m old and don’t have any identifiable infos in my alerts so I use plain mail messages. If for some reason mail wasn’t a good option, I’d use ntfy
I am running an alertmanager instance which sends the alarms to telegram using a bot account.
Same, but I send them to my gotify instance.
Gotify, super easy to setup, very basic but has everything I need.
Gotify. Fast. Easy. Private. The messages live on my server.
Also, there is a Gotify app in F-droid to get notifications on the go.
I use Munin for monitoring and XMPP for alerts via go-sendxmpp. That way I just configure munin like this:
contact.admin.command go-sendxmpp -u [bot_username] --password [bot_password] [contact]And that sends me messages to my main XMPP account whenever my servers breach a limit.
Thanks for the link to go-sendxmpp. It’s nice to have an xmpp-native way to send notifications
I personally chose ntfy over gotify and use it everywhere
I’m currently running both to decide which to use, what made you pick ntfy?
Honestly can’t remember at this point. I also tried both and couldn’t decide back when I was comparing.
I think I started with gotify but struggled getting it working with one of my use cases and ntfy was able.
I don’t know if things have changed so I guess try both and see what best suits you
I send my grafana alerts via Matrix (selfhosted) and Email (paid service), so either way it reaches me. Has worked out well enough so far
monit + email
Was using ntfy.sh until it was AI slopped. Now I’m on apprise. But ntfy was superior.
What happened to ntfy? Care to elaborate a bit?
This release : https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/tag/v2.18.0
This is the biggest release I’ve ever done on the server. It’s 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support.
The code was written by Cursor and Claude, but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me.
That’s really unfortunate to see. I was just getting around to setting up my alerts and thought ntfy looked great, since it supports instant notifications on iOS. I guess I’ll leave it be until signal-cli-rest-api gets numberless support…
I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.
Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.
