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by nicbou 898 days ago
This is really nice. The front page tells me everything I need to know.

For your consideration, I'm really struggling to find a tool like yours that expect a regular ping ("the daily build has not failed") and that support pushing a status ("the last build was green").

I have two matching use cases: one to detect when my static site generator fails to build in production, and the other to detect when my appointment finder does not find appointments for a longer period of time. I'd really like my uptime monitor to handle that, so that I don't have to implement something myself.

Another brilliant feature is allestörungen, which lets people report troubles with common services. It fulfils the similar niche of "is this down for anyone else?"

2 comments

Ping success/failure is something I've been looking at - I'll add it to the backlog :)
In this case the server would be POSTing a status to you ("I'm not ok!"), not responding to a ping.
Are you looking for something that accepts a metric from your end (number of appointments found) and alerts on a rule (Zero appointments found in the past 24 hours)?
It would be nice but not absolutely necessary. Something that allows gathering all alerts in one place is all I need. Gathering data in one place would be cool but not absolutely essential
Yep, understood - will be adding that soon
I think cronitor does that