… 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.
ntfy
I like ntfy.sh a lot. Sending a notification is a simple cURL request, and they have mobile apps. Also I gotta mention healthchecks.io for any cron job or uptime monitoring, which has ntfy.sh support built in.
Exactly what I use. Both are very low footprint, so they sit on an old raspberry pi, with the rest of the services on the n100. Works great for me.
Is “my users” a valid answer? xD
E-mails and “I can tell by the way that it is”
Gotify, super easy to setup, very basic but has everything I need.
I personally chose ntfy over gotify and use it everywhere
I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.
Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.
zabbix with ntfy for short term alerts and a telegram bot for long-term alerts.
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.
MQTT and a vibecoded flutter app that subscribes to topics and will publish acks so it mutes alerts on other devices in my networks. Nothing I could find on the appstore would stay active well enough to be trusted. This one is pretty bulletproof.
I’m using an Uptime Kuma container which can be configured to alert through just about anything you like.
Peekaping hooked into home assistant for notifications.
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.
For the urgent notifications that require immediate action I use apprise -> Pager duty (free tier) because it can overwrite the DnD settings on my phone and wake me up if im asleep. For all other notifications apprise -> matrix.
