Pingdom recently announced that they're shutting down their free plan for basic uptime monitoring…
Pingdom recently announced that they're shutting down their free plan for basic uptime monitoring, so I built a minimal replacement to suit my own needs. Pingdom is a great product, but my needs are too small for a paid account.
Basically I just want an email, if a service of mine goes down or is unresponsive.
In case anyone else would like to run their own uptime monitor, here's the project link. Basically all you need is a host running docker:
Nice work.
That looks really good and well made!
Good work. When i build something that requires notifications, i use webhooks with slack to get realtime notifications. You won’t need to subscribe for email sending service.
Might be a good idea for a future addition as an extension.
I don't really use Slack myself however. Something about eating up hundreds of MB of memory for a chat application, doesn't quite sit right with me. :)
Electron is the best thing for junior JS devs and the worst thing for users.
The one and only Electron app I'm happy with is VS Code, and even then I sometimes pull out Sublime when dealing with huge files.
Yes, I like to use the Twitter API and tweet which is pretty reliable.
You can also take a look at https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/ if you don't want to host yourself.
thanks