… 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.
Is “my users” a valid answer? xD
Yes. My stuff is only for me, so the only way I find out something isn’t working is when I go to use it. But that almost never happens.
The only actual notifications I get is for updates.
E-mails and “I can tell by the way that it is”
Mostly Zabbix and my own email server. Way I figure if there’s something broken enough to take out the email internally I’m probably already dealing with a broader issue.
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
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/
5V * 0.3A = 1.5W
Right you are. Still much cheaper than a laptop, let alone a server.
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 don’t presently, but back when I was working on a large codebase and needing to know when a painfully long compile finished, I used an XMPP client and server.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LTS Long Term Support software version LXC Linux Containers Plex Brand of media server package XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
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I created a slack workspace. Alerts sent via alert manager to a channel. Also has channels for ci runners, home assistant etc.
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.
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
ntfy
zabbix with ntfy for short term alerts and a telegram bot for long-term alerts.
monit + email
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
All of my alerts go to Apprise, which sends it to Home Assistant. Home assistant allows me to either have silent notifications in the app I can look at later, or send as a push notification to my phone.
