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Healthchecks
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Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives
In fact, your platform (https://healthchecks.io/) is a prime example of where running customer wasm would be really excellent.
Instead of sending webhooks out to customer configured URLs, you could run a Wasm environment to execute customer code. Off hand, a good use case here is to do further inspection of the event before it gets sent off to some other system - maybe there are cases where you send false-positives and needlessly trigger external system alerts. The customer Wasm could do more introspection on the healthcheck event and make a more informed decision about how to proceed.
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What do you use for external monitoring?
i use healthchecks.io and have been very happy
with Uptime Kuma and healthchecks.io, you can do everything. Uptime Kuma to monitor "services" (web server, database), and healthchecks to monitor punctual jobs (backup jobs, etc)
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Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?
If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed.
I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this.
https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now.
There are others that do the same thing Sentry, Uptime Robot, ...
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Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
A service in a very similar vein is https://healthchecks.io/ - which also provides a nice perspective on how low-effort the setup for a service with a substantial amount of users can be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488910
The blog also contains a bunch of useful information and guides around the topic, including various unusual configurations (arduino/esp8266) as well as information on self-hosting.
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Detecting and alerting for power failures
i use https://healthchecks.io/ and highly recommend it.
You can use a service like https://healthchecks.io/ for example. There is an article describing the idea here: https://www.signl4.com/blog/monitoring-still-alive-heartbeat-check/.
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Uptime site monitor - notification solutions for home while sleeping
i like healthchecks.io
borgmatic
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Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
- for important files, a separate box where I have borgmatic [1] in deduplication mode installed; this is updated once in a while
Just curious: Do you have any reason to believe that such a data corruption bug is likely in ZFS? It seems like saying that ext4 could have a bug and you should also store stuff on NTFS, just in case (which I think does not make sense..).
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Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Not really dumb. I do use them too but with Borgbackup on the top (since they support it natively).
I found Borgmatic ( https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ ) to be the best way to run my backups. It takes care of everything from pruning to verifying the checksum etc... and it integrates with some monitoring (like cronitor).
So Borgmatic + rsync.net is the best combo
- Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?
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KBackup vs rsync?
For backups I use Borg myself. If you need a GUI, you can use Vorta or Pika. With borgmatic, there is also a wrapper that extends the range of functions of Borg.
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BorgBackup 1.2.4 released
For those of you not familiar, borgmatic is a very convenient tool which runs as a wrapper around borg.
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Server lost power, world not loading correctly
I recommend Borg and Borgmatic. Automated, easy to setup, capable of notifying you if anything happens, deduplication and compression makes backups smaller, etc.
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Any advice/best practices for how to backup emails of Linux-based mail server
To add to this, Borg backup can be a little daunting to configure. There is a wrapper script called Borgmatic that distills it down to a single yaml config file. There are also some cloud hosts like BorgBase and rsync.net with native Borg support.
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Sharing my quick start sheet for new users, and looking for cloud backup like Arq
I don't know, I only know the tool by name. I myself use Borg for years. If you want a graphical interface, you can use Vorta or Pika. With borgmatic there is a wrapper for Borg that extends or improves the functionality.
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I installed Arch, and now what?
a good alternative to that would be borg, if you want a slightly easier way to automate then use borgmatic, both available in the official community mirrors.
What are some alternatives?
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
vorta - Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
gatus - ⛑ Automated developer-oriented status page
ansible-role-borgbackup - Ansible role to set up Borg and Borgmatic
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
zpaqfranz - Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Ransomware neutralizer. Win/Linux/Unix
kopia - Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool