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Duration 7 hours
Course Outline
Monitoring Sovereignty for Teams
- Understanding how cloud monitoring SaaS solutions may expose infrastructure topology and performance data.
- Exploring Uptime Kuma’s architecture: Node.js, SQLite, and Vue.js frontend.
- Evaluating comparisons with Nagios, Zabbix, and Grafana OnCall.
Rapid Deployment
- Installing via Docker one-liner and configuring volume persistence.
- Setting up reverse proxies and TLS encryption.
- Performing initial configuration and creating the admin account.
- Configuring environment variables for authentication and base URL settings.
Monitor Configurations
- HTTP/HTTPS monitoring including keyword and status code validation.
- TCP port checking and ping/ICMP monitoring.
- DNS resolution and specific query-type checks.
- Push monitors for verifying cron jobs and backup heartbeats.
- Monitoring for MQTT, gRPC, and game servers.
Alerting Mechanisms
- Configuring SMTP email and Microsoft Teams webhooks.
- Setting up bots for Slack, Discord, Telegram, and Signal.
- Integrating with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and custom webhook payloads.
- Implementing notification throttling and escalation policies.
Status Page Management
- Creating branded public status pages for external stakeholders.
- Managing incident timelines and maintenance modes.
- Applying custom CSS and mapping custom domains.
- Utilizing RSS and JSON feeds for status automation.
Integration and Ongoing Maintenance
- Exposing Prometheus metrics endpoints for external scraping.
- Using the API for bulk creation and management of monitors.
- Performing database backups and migrations.
- Updating and securing the Uptime Kuma instance.
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of Linux and Docker administration.
- A solid understanding of HTTP, TCP, and core monitoring concepts.
- Familiarity with common notification channels such as email, Slack, and Discord.
Target Audience
- SREs and DevOps teams seeking to migrate away from cloud-based monitoring dashboards.
- Small teams requiring straightforward, sovereign uptime monitoring solutions.
- Organizations aiming to avoid SaaS monitoring dependencies for compliance reasons.
