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Looking for advice from the #Fediverse #HiveMind...

I want to monitor a server on my network. Simple up/down monitoring. Reason being is that I'm having problems with my internet at home, and I wanna see how often it drops out. UpTimeRobot offers 5min intervals for free, but their paid plan is $7/month. That's more than I'd like to pay for something so simple.

Any recommendations please, folks?

Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@kev

Without knowing anything about what hardware you are using, all I can offer at present is an anecdote.

My greenhouse monitoring computer, which controls the heating in there, is monitored by another machine indoors, which uses shell commands to see if the program that should be running is running. If not, it sends a message to my phone, via Pushover.

Code available if wanted...