<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> </p><p>Without knowing anything about what hardware you are using, all I can offer at present is an anecdote.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/RaspBerryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RaspBerryPi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> </p><p>Code available if wanted...</p>

<p>Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up going with Downtime Monkey. They&#39;re very cheap and seem to tick all the boxes for me.</p><p><a href="https://downtimemonkey.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">downtimemonkey.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> &gt; We sincerely thank you for your continued support</p><p>That continued support is why no one has any option to move on and support anything else, while they continue robbing you (anyone wants to argue it&#39;s not?) without as much as an apology.</p>

@mia@movsw.0x0.st

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span><br />I did similar and just sent the output from ping to a CSV. But I only needed to monitor for 5-60 minute periods.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> Maybe you could use pipedream.com to ping your server?</p>

rare italian plate far from home

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> I&#39;m a fan of Uptime Kuma (selfhosted in a docker container). <a href="https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/%F0%9F%94%A7-How-to-Install" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/louislam/uptime-kum</span><span class="invisible">a/wiki/%F0%9F%94%A7-How-to-Install</span></a></p>

<p>Wow, does this talk by Scott Meyers ever hit close to home on multiple levels. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCn</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p>