Add monitoring to your infrastructure
![Add monitoring to your infrastructure](/content/images/size/w960/2021/08/photo-1470777639313-60af88918203-1.jpg)
As a system administrator, one of the best investments for a good night’s sleep is reliable monitoring. Okay. Having reliable clients or colleagues who will inform you about the server downtime without any hassle is a second good option :)
On a professional level, I personally use zabbix, but for day-to-day work I find the straightforward Update Kuma really great.
The choice
You can currently find 3 different monitoring solutions for self-hosting in the Cloudron app store. I have tried them all, and they all have their pros and cons.
Statping
Statping has a public dashboard and a nice view for historical data and incidents. If you want to have a public dashboard for customers, you should start with Statping. Note, however, that Statping is considered unstable in the Cloudron store itself. There is also a thread in the forum about some issues. In my use case, I did not find any problems. I love the public dashboard :)
![screenshot statping dashboard](https://blog.cloudron.io/content/images/2021/08/upload_fb89f6259f9235f825775f40d2a5d5d9.png)
![screenshot statping dashboard - the incidents marked as red.](https://blog.cloudron.io/content/images/2021/08/upload_7c2e994e6b341d9ac6488ed558fccf9a.png)
PHP Server Monitor
The app installation process is as simple as ever. But I have no idea why adding a new host was painful for me. After about 5 minutes, I decided to use the app another time. The features look great, and I just need some time to try PHP Server Monitor out again.
The new Kid on the Block
But before I had a chance to try PHP Server Monitor again, Update Kuma arrived in the Cloudron store. It was love at first sight. A fresh look from a newformed community. Adding hosts or services is intuitive, the non-public dashboard is fine, and adding rocket.chat via a webhook as an emergency notification channel was done in less than 10 minutes. You can also choose between different messengers like Signal or Telegram to receive the notifications.
![screenshot update kuma dashboard](https://blog.cloudron.io/content/images/2021/08/upload_2000dad46040b6409b742957277cbb20.png)
Now it’s up to you
Use a separate Cloudron instance to monitor your infrastructure. To have a really deep sleep, add another instance that monitors the monitoring solution. To set up reliable infrastructure monitoring, choose different hosting providers.
Links
Uptime Kuma
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
https://www.cloudron.io/store/louislam.uptimekuma.app.html
https://forum.cloudron.io/category/133/uptime-kuma
https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/uptime-kuma/
PHP Server Monitor
https://www.phpservermonitor.org/
https://www.cloudron.io/store/org.phpservermonitor.cloudronapp.html
https://forum.cloudron.io/category/126/php-server-monitor
https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/php-server-monitor/
Statping
https://statping.com/
https://www.cloudron.io/store/com.statping.cloudronapp.html
https://forum.cloudron.io/category/92/statping
https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/statping
Cloudron
https://www.cloudron.io/get.html
https://forum.cloudron.io/category/4/support