Meet Uptime Kuma, a Fancy Open Source Uptime Monitor for all your HomeLab Monitoring Needs

[@TechnoTim]

What are you using to monitor your services?

[@andrewhandlen430]

Been using Kuma for a little while and loving it! Active development + “public” facing status dashboard makes this the easiest selfhosted/homelab solution IMO. As always thanks for the content Tim!

[@mveldt]

Using PRTG. It's free for the first 100 sensors. But it needs to run on Windows.

[@timtrense4376]

Prometheus. Just lovely to have the ability to use one system to monitor literally anything due to their separation of export + scrape

[@pbriars]

Tried Zabix before but couldnt get on with it. I swear it was the cause of a couple of HDD predictive failures. Will certainly be giving Kuma a go now, Great video. Thank you.

[@vladbabii9025]

But who monitors the monitor? I'm going to add a PI 4 with a second kuma on it to monitor the first kuma and maybe some services, in case something happens to kuma host. or is that overkill ?

[@LouisLamLam]

Uptime Kuma maintainer here! Thank you so much for introducing Uptime Kuma! A great video!

[@yuriw777]

can it be installed with Rancher?

[@TechnoTim]

Hey!!! Thank you so much for a great FANCY tool. It’s everything I could have asked for!

[@Arclyte306]

Thanks to you Louis and Thanks Tim!

[@Pro-cheeseburger]

are you LouisLam ?!?!? lol

[@marianosilva2030]

@louis, great tool! Thanks for maintaining it!! Do you recommend to use the image :1, or :latest?

[@CraftComputing]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS???? Great video Tim!

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks Jeff! Maybe you can run it on your fancy new TureNAS scale box in a container, if not, it's just a simple nodejs install!

[@AnonymousB460]

This was me just now.

[@OfficialUmey]

Loved how you signed "thanks" at the end! As a deaf viewer relying on live captions, it made my day!

[@fullstackwithsantosh]

I never though I would ever install something to monitor uptime status of my services/hosts. But it's actually nice to see status of everything at one place.

[@anlongdus]

"Upside down" could be used to make sure that some historical protocols like FTP or IMAP without encryption are *not* offered for security reasons.

[@TechnoTim]

I like it!

[@globaldisaster1988]

@@TechnoTim Flow's comment should be pinned at top :)

[@whahala555]

It could also be used for home security if you have smart locks, you might want to check a home security status portal of the keyword unlocked and use Upside Down to tell you you have a door unlocked.

[@MichaelSmith-fg8xh]

I just had to do an upside-down for PING... it's not intended to be available for the server I'm monitoring

[@larssgnen3148]

Been using kuma for 3 months now. It's been rock solid.

[@krzychaczu]

Your tutorials are gold! 👍🥇 I love the fact that you consider security matera in your tutorials. There are so many "for a sake of this tutorial we are going to skip security matters" out there, mass producing security ignorant enthusiasts. So double kudos for that! 💪

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! Glad you like them!! More to come!

[@huplim]

❤️ your videos. Straight to the point without any fluff.

[@rjcarneiro]

Hi Tim, I cannot thank you enough for showing Uptime Kuma. This is exactly what I was searching to monitor all my web projects! Many thanks! You're the best!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you for stopping by and commenting!

[@yuriw777]

I've been using it for 3 days and love it! Would like to see more features, like the ability to ping from out-of-network servers, maybe integration to allow ping from different countries, a monitor by MAC address, etc.

[@cvought1]

Just……Wow! Gonna spin this up for internal & external services. Tim you’ve outdone yourself with this review. Sold!

[@jeroenklaver5284]

Thanks! Just installed Uptime Kuma. I run it now next to our Observium system.

[@dmaaxmusic]

Thank you so much Tim! I was searching for a monitoring tool like this for days and could not find a good one.

[@TechnoTim]

Anytime!

[@patrickemerson6464]

You just inspired me to set it up. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@Phil_Barker]

Absolutely love this. Have a few troublesome services in docker that I don't notice die, now I do! and Uptime Kuma is a stunning little dashboard. Thanks for this!

[@jonisapp]

There is also Gatus which is more customizable and uses far less ressources because written in go (~20-50MB with Sqlite as storage vs > 150-200MB). At the beginning Uptime-kuma was great but I have only had issues since. Gatus config is made through code which allows for more features and customization.

[@nccyr1]

Thank you for the video, this is a must have like Pi-hole and other great open source services. And yes, I followed your instructions and I have it running!

[@raymondvanderwerf]

I wasn't using anything yes, but now I'm usin' this! GREAT video Tim!

[@TEKENGLOBAL]

Hi Tim, Just wanted to take a few moments to thank you for another great *How To* and the steps to accomplish the same. Uptime Kuma is not only fancy but sexy as hell and this adds to the other network monitors I have in place now. Such as NEMS, Observium, UNMS, Cloud Key etc. Happy New Years & Rock On . . .

[@Backtrack3332]

This is awesome. Thanks for showing us this gem!

[@TechnoTim]

You bet!

[@alanjrobertson]

Wow wow wow 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Love this! To rally going to be installing this later today, thanks for letting me know about it!

[@kooldad1]

Thanks Tim - Finally got around to setting this up. I have it running in the cloud to monitor some cloud and network devices.

[@miki007s]

Can you add monitors like in bulk mode? Let's say using a script to import hosts/devices from xml or csv?

[@n0madfernan257]

Used this to monitor my routers and CPEs. Thanks tim.

[@TechnoTim]

Nice!

[@samuelgodfreyhendrix]

I was thinking about using Statping, but I actually like the look of this a bit better. Awesome video!

[@radiowolf80211]

Fell in love with Kuma right away. Just simple and easy. So... if i'm hosting this locally, how do I get it to send an alert to the cloud if the network is down and it can't send anything?

[@Lee-qy3bc]

Can't wait to try this out, great outro by the way, the homeland spiral.

[@RisedSky]

Man, i was looking for a uptime service opensource, free, and lightweight, you are in my brain or what ? ahahah , good video, keep the good work, love all your videos :)

[@krzysztofkaminski6474]

Check statping for minimal uptime service

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@Master.Billy.Quizboy]

Man, this is the 3rd Uptime Kuma video I've watched in as many weeks. I guess I have to set it up! 🤣

[@skynetskynet4845]

What a great service. Fast, reliable and working great on a Rpi4. Thanks TIM :)

[@TechnoTim]

Great to hear!

[@johnyferreira8733]

This is great. Thanks for the tutorial. I learned a lot and deployed uptime-kuma to my home network. Good stuff!!!

[@TechnoTim]

Great to hear!

[@Halsafe]

This is perfect! I ended up using a different install method but learned about this from you, thanks for sharing!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it helped!

[@CBarker151]

First one of your videos I have seen. Love it, really great content. Going to be taking a look at both Uptime Kuma and the rest of your videos now.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!!

[@janvanveldhuizen_visma]

Hahaha... I finally have something running successfully in my homelab. Don't tell I have to spin up another service to monitor it. :P Well, just kidding. I like it.

[@quiksr20]

Great Video, I set this up internally for my internal services and then an external one at my parents ( any remote location or VPS would do ) to monitor my self hosted public services. To monitor public services you cant really monitor from the same location, power goes out so does your monitoring.. Great video!

[@radis_noi_r]

What about devops classics such as grafana ? It has the benefit of not being limited to health checks and uptimes.

[@prashanthb6521]

This would be a very nice service for my set up. Thanks a lot for introducing this to me.

[@robking1054]

Another great video Tim. I found the latest release to not work on ARM but the version prior is fine. Nice to use this with slack. I can easily be alerted when my wife starts turning my gadgets off!

[@TechnoTim]

👍

[@support2587]

Well that went smoothly. Thanks.

[@dlgover]

Great Video, I too had been running nagios and it's very functional but more then I need at home. This is an awesome light weight monitor with lots of function that's just idea for monitoring a few things at home. Thanks for creating this tutorial.

[@georgioskatsanakis1711]

I think i will love puma. Thanks for the video

[@transatlant1c]

This might sound silly at first, but if implementing this yourself you should also consider a ‘backup’ instance that monitors your main instance (eg. if main UK goes down, you need to know about it as none of its monitors will work either) - I run my backup on a pi and the main on my main array for some redundancy.

[@TechnoTim]

Sounds awesome! Not silly!

[@TechnoTim]

Someone's gotta watch the watchers!

[@talbech]

Zabbix+Graylog+Grafana is hard to configure and maintain, but it provide so much flexibility.

[@majorgear1021]

Can Uptime Kuma scrape and analyze logs? I had an app that couldn’t communicate with another app because I renamed the server that app was on. It was like for 5 months and I didn’t notice. If a Kuma could check the logs and alarm on phrases like “cannot connect to…” that would be helpful! Also, for notifications, does it behave differently for down and up? Can you configure alerts with a different priority depend on how important the event is? My service that downloads cooking recipes being down isn't a big deal, but if my primary docker node bites the dust, I want my phone beeping like crazy to get my attention!

[@technologyLife20203]

Any easy way of getting the email notifications setup by chance ?

[@ianneub]

Thanks for sharing this, Uptime Kuma seems pretty awesome. Fun fact it even supports Prometheus and Grafana!

[@johnglasscock7018]

If this is hosted on a local homelab, is there any port forwarding or something of the sort to get discord notifications to work?

[@TweakMDS]

Very nice option, Tim! Would you have any recommendation for "fancy" open source tools that can actually do a login and navigate inside a website with a script to check if features are up and running? I was hoping this does it, but it seems a tad more limited than that.

[@TechnoTim]

Not sure, I’d probably create a health check endpoint and use an auth token in the header for that

[@allards]

Tnx a lot for makingg this video Tim. I was a bit reluctant to implement Grafana seemed like a lot of work and overkill to monitor with al requirements to setup for a small soho.lan. But uptime Kuma took me just a few hours, only 5 min to commit a Docker container into my Portainer stack :) and the rest to setup all the devices I/ services nto Uptime Kuma. I don't expose Kuma to the Internet (can access via Tailscale) , removed the password and created a status page for my Girlfriend to jump to from Heimdall. Can she check if there is something wrong and what's the issue. Well that’s at least in theory what I'd hope she does! :)

[@HelloHelloXD]

8:05 How do you back up your docker volumes? Do you have to stop your containers before backing up the data folder? Can you make a video about it?

[@TechnoTim]

I use syncthing to sync this entire folder to another machine, and from there I can also back it up to the cloud!

[@95923843]

That is wonderful, I would like to which part to determinate the notification time zone (if I use slack), the docker or the slack workspace ? any ideas ?

[@TobiasMann7]

This made my day. Simple and effective!

[@bpetrikovics]

The one bummer is that Kuma does not support its data volume over NFS, due to the fact it only supports Sqlite3 as backing database, and NFS is maybe the easiest way "at home" to provide a shared volume for a cluster (I use Swarm). And I think it would be really important to be able to deploy a service availability app in a redundant, fault tolerant way ;)

[@TechnoTim]

Agreed. I wish it would support a proper external db

[@fbifido2]

love your docker videos :)

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@PileofKyle]

Just looking for something like this! Thanks for sharing

[@BrentHawkins]

Thank you sir! Excellent vids as always!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you like them!

[@willytylee]

Thank you! This is very useful!

[@jaymoores8258]

Can you revisit this ? There are some new features like monitoring docker containers etc that require your jedi powers of explanation. Thanks in advance.

[@borealis370]

great quality! much appreciated.

[@meteailesi]

That is awesome content , thanks from Turkey !

[@Botio]

Could u also do an episode about fancy STMP mail server setting up? good looking one only. thx

[@Venkor]

Great video! I'm working in enterprise monitoring as a developer and didn't know that tool exist till now :) Does it support some kind of plugins like any kind of DB monitoring, SNMP traps etc.? Looks easy to setup to at least have something tell you about the overall service status :) Again thanks for another great and strightforward content and also kudos to all the Uptime Kuma contributors for such tool!

[@kimsec]

the ending of the video is on point! lmao

[@jaimecabrera8102]

Great video, thanks.

[@bluewombat]

This would be great to have running on a Chrome OS Compute stick or something running in kiosk mode, and then some extension that automatically switches between this and other dashboards you wanna show on the monitor, like NUT status for instance, Observium etc.

[@ShahzadKhanSK]

This is awesome. I am using Microsoft Teams web hooks and it works great. Thanks for sharing this.

[@alessandromarchioro1726]

Seems like it's time to remove Grafana for something simpler and easier to configure! Thanks for the video, really informative, well done :)

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@jonathonsissom6655]

Ah i've used nagios quite a few times before. But this, now this is nice!! I like it

[@shawn2296]

deff gonna set this up

[@Brainpitcher]

Absolutely awesome!!! Thanx!

[@uuu12343]

Can I just say, this is pretty...FANCY

[@calvin_thefreak]

The Endcard, I feel this xD

[@davidrobertnewman]

The status page listing all hosts/services in looks quite useful. Does Uptime Kuma support different views, with perhaps one page showing public-facing services and one or more other pages showing internal stuff? Thanks.

[@andrewjohnston359]

Not separate pages, but you can add groups and tags. Groups is just like a sub heading and you drag the monitors down to the appropriate one (only in status view). Tags are just that...but you can select colours to make it easy to distinguish what's what (only in dashboard view). I think they need the ability to add a monitor to a group when you create it, so it puts itself in the right place, rather than manually dragging and dropping under the correct heading. Also, filtering by tags would be a nice addition

[@bbtwano]

I don't know how you do it Tim, but every time I am looking for something, you make a video on the exact thing I'm looking for! Already so much better than the Solarwinds ipMonitor i was using. Thanks!

[@TechnoTim]

🤯 thank you!

[@anlongdus]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@Glatze603]

Thank's a lot, another very cool open source tool - and fancy, too :-)

[@FabianoChagas]

Such a cool tool Thanks for sharing!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@brian1xevdo]

Another excellent guide! I’ll definitely be deploying this shortly. Also, with all your self-hosted apps, do you host your website?

[@TechnoTim]

I do!

[@TechnoTim]

Also, thank you!

[@spicyF1]

Great Video Tim,

[@borolo222]

Great stuff, now how to add it to home assistant...

[@soreLful]

Fancy indeed. Nice tutorial man

[@BlutoSlice]

To replace nagios with free fancy would be nice. Can you have custom service type checks I'd need disk capacity monitors to cover all bases

[@TechnoTim]

No disk checks or anything like that with Kuma, only uptime service monitoring. I’d use grafana for that

[@MrRyteByte]

Thanks Tim for this walk through. I am totally new to Docker. I set up docker and installed Uptime Kuma. It installed successfully, but when I try to view logs using docker logs uptime-kuma, all it shows is "exec /usr/bin/dumb-init: operation not permitted" over and over again. This is on Ubuntu server 22.04. Any idea on how to access the logs successfully?

[@EduardKondratyuk]

Thank you so much!

[@mrmotofy]

The file contents from Louis lists file name as 3.8, I had to change it to 3.3 after an error

[@orrymr]

Hey great video ~ subscribed!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much!

[@eric90000]

This is awesome, I will be setting this up for sure! Do you know if there is some way you can set this up to monitor your WAN connection? And sent alerts locally when the WAN goes down (e.g. an ISP outage or something?).

[@TechnoTim]

Just monitor an external site like google.com (easiest) or ping your WAN gateway.

[@eric90000]

@@TechnoTim thanks for the help :) looking forward to more videos!

[@ChristopherReevesNZ]

Wow this is so cool, thanks for sharing! :) :) :)

[@physk2186]

I bet Facebook wished they had watched this yesterday 😜

[@11Menjivar]

Seems like Facebook should use uptime-kuma to monitor their DNS lol

[@gkaruk]

Anyone know of way to implement the Portainer setting of "Portainer ensure containers no new privileges" option for this container?

[@patrickreagan_D3Tools]

Still a very useful (and fun) video intro to Uptime Kuma! One note for Docker Compose newbies: a recent version update has changed the command to no longer have the dash. So the start command now looks like: $ docker compose up -d --force-recreate

[@galarnon-x2l]

Thanks !!

[@Ne0_Vect0r]

damn I like this fancy thingy

[@josechavezleiva7617]

Awesome video.

[@patriotsarechokers]

Anyway you could install some containers like uptime-kuma, plex, and others on rancher?

[@TechnoTim]

Sure, they are containers. I have one on plex and mention that in this video

[@ChrisDePasqualeNJ]

Question: is there a way to make all if my IP's that my services get in Docker static? I’m new to Cloudflare tunnels and am trying to migrate from NMP and exposed ports. Love your video but my problem is that as I crate new containers or update containers, My Docker is giving out a different IP and so then I must go back into Cloudflare Tunnels and update the IP. Or its getting and IP in the wrong network. i.e., Cloud Flared will be in 172.17.0.x and my service will be in 172.18.0.x and it can't see it. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@TechnoTim]

You don’t want IPs for containers, you’ll need a reverse proxy in front. Keep NPM

[@ChrisDePasqualeNJ]

@@TechnoTim okay I think I know what you mean. Let me try that and let you know. Thanks

[@majorgear1021]

You can use Macvlan for that. It’s great to avoid port conflicts . For example, I run gitea container which uses port 22. Without Macvlan, I’d have to change its port and remember to use it as the host is already using port 22 for ssh. With macvlan, there isn’t a port conflict so I can leave it at the default port 22.

[@AlonsoVPR]

Great tool man!!

[@markgilbert249]

How would you compare this against LibreNMS?