Start monitoring with UpTime Kuma on Linode: ntck.co/linode ($100 Credit good for 60 days as a new user!) 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy 0:00 ⏩ Intro 1:53 ⏩ Uptime Kuma Cloud setup 2:51 ⏩ UpTime Kuma Home lab setup 5:23 ⏩ Add a new monitor in UpTime Kuma 10:26 ⏩ Setting up notifications in Uptime Kuma 12:52 ⏩ the Uptime Kuma status page
Why do you promote Linode, they are the worst. They accuse customers of being frauds so to avoid signing them up. Also, they keep debiting people's debit and credit cards every month, even after cancellation.
@@Ali-lm7uw In comparison to Google their cool. Google and the rest of big tech is sinister in their monopoly. And linode is cheap and offer better features in my opinion
For once, Im ahead of Chuck, been using this for the past few months, and I did start it off on Linode, before moving it to a dedicated server of my own.
What if he was using it for months, years and was just waiting for the right moment to make a video about it If you want your channel to be consistent, you don’t really share everything you know in one go
finally a simple monitoring tool. easy setup easy use. i tried a bunch of other softwares and all of them are overengineered chaos with endless setup and configurations. love it
I haven't looked at network monitoring since fighting with nagios and What's Up Gold at work several years back. This seems much easier to set up, Chuck. I definitely want to get this running in my home lab.
I remember struggling with Nagios to monitor remote sites when the power went out at those sites and the backup power kicked in. Used Nagios to read codes off the UPS and sent email alerts. Man that thing was great amd finicky at the same time. This looks to be what Nagios could have been.
@@thereare4lights137 I tried Nagios free and I passed that right up. Zabbix however is still with a learning curve to setup however compared to Nagios, it's leagues easier with much of the same functionality.
Hey Chuck. I followed your advice on how to get a job in it and let me tell you I've been working at my new it job for 3 months because of you man. Thank you for the information and inspiration I needed 🙏
Thank you very much Chuck. I built this in my Private ESXi and have been using it for a week now. I can't express well enough how happy i am with this tool.
Funnily enough, I just deployed uptime-kuma locally to watch all the services in my LAN and also in the cloud (oracle) to watch the few that are accessible externally, and you just made a video about it :)) Very impressed with Uptime Kuma so far!
This is so F***ing amazing that I deployed one up and configured everything even before finishing the video, omg that's what i was searching for a long time, so easy to use....
As somebody who's been using Linux for 25 years, every time I hear you say "soo-doh" rather than "soo-doo" I wanna click the X in the upper right corner...but you're just too damn entertaining and informative.
New week up as many FOMO in. But the LR66CR story isn’t over yet. The only strat that works under all circumstances is DCA all the time with solid, large companies (not hyped ones).
For anyone running home assistant, there's an add-on for uptime kuma that sets it up for you. Just go into Settings / Add-Ons / Add-On Store / and scroll down to the Community Add-ons.
Unless I am missing something obvious, Uptime Kuma is lacking two very important monitoring protocols: SNMP and WMI. Sure, you can use a ping monitor, but you are missing out on so much useful data by not being able to use those two protocols. Think I will hold off on this until they are added. I REALLY wish that SolarWinds would fork an open source branch of their software!
I see your uptime kuba and I raise you a better solution. Zabbix. Uptime Kuma is good for basic ping/uptime checks sure. But what about CPU, Memory, and Hard Drive utilization. What if you want to see bandwidth utilization per interface you have and compare the error rate on those interfaces. Introducing SNMP(v3) do not push SNMPv2 over the internet and always use SNMPv3 where you can. SNMP is the industry standard monitoring solution for various tools. Zabbix goes a bit further allowing you to run commands via an agent on the server in question to glean any information you want. What to check non network related services running on a server? You can do that and so much more.
amazing app, you should really go more into detail such as setting up groups and setting up sms or smtp notifications which I imagine for most would be the most common
in our studio, we use this, to monitor all our render farms and servers, for a bit more than one year, and it is a damn good application. We set it up on a raspi with a dedicated UPS and 4G connection. Highly recommended
I really appreciate you setting it up with compose - a lot of tutorials use terminal docker commands. As for Uptime Kuma, it would be nice to be able to sync two instances for redundancies sake.
@@yeastdonkey846 Of course you do, who uses docker commands only if they are not insane? With docker compose you can preserve all the info in a file and restart/update in seconds.
Epic one chuck! Quick question!! Can this be done on proxmox? I gad just set up proxmox on my old laptop. Following your vid, and don't have another spare pc
Very cool! installed it and added my servers to it. Thank You! Lol I even added my roommate's phone wifi connection so I know if they are at the house or not.
Keyword monitoring gives me an idea, load pages that sell certain thing you’re interested in , then set keyword something like “Sale” so that if it finds the sale it notifies you. Great around holidays when looking to buy that sweet expensive piece of tech😅
thank you for the video. Had a bit of trouble setting it up on my homelab at first, mainly because I've never used Docker containers before and didn't know how they behaved. Had to change the network_mode to "host" and thus remove the port assignments because i am running it in an VM on my server and didn't find another way to actually connect to it from my machine. Works though, so all is good.
I use Zabbix to monitoring almost 400 linux servers and some Cisco devices... Load Averages, storage, ram, services, websites, generate scheduled reports. Grafana for dashboards and more statistics... It's not a solution "out-of-the-box" but, once you've configured it properly, it works flawlessly... Great video. I loved it
4:20 - why do you use "docker-compose" instead of "docker compose"? Notice the space... Maybe no reason, or because it's what you've always done, but I _think_ "docker-compose" is an additional package to install, while "docker compose" is part of the standard docker package. Uptime Kuma looks cool though.
This is a pretty cool tutorial. I setup a simple Ubuntu server VM on my media server (Windows 10 because reasons) and set it to auto start with the media server and boom, it can now monitor all my media stuff, Radarr, Sonarr, even my Pi-Hole VM which runs on the same server. What a time to be alive...
I just spun up a new Ubuntu server VM and set this up on it. This thing is awesome! Fun project that involves this when installed in the home lab - Set a DHCP reservation for the phone of your spouse or child, then set up a ping monitor for that IP. Now you know if they're home, so if you can access this remotely you can always know if that person/persons are home. You get alerts when they leave. Well, or shut off their phone.
Nice one, I install on VM and connected via Wireguard to my home network to also monitor internal devices as also monitoring external devices as if home network goes down I won't get any alerts but hosting it externally I get alerts for this and any other network I may want to monitor all in one place :D
Love this tool! just got it set up yesterday to monitor my docker containers 👍👍 love watching your videos and have learned so much from them already just within a few months!!
I love this tool. Funny thing is in built my own version and it didn’t provide a fraction the functionality of UpTime Kuma. It’s easy, the interface is beautiful and it works great. I send my alerts to a slack channel. Couldn’t be simpler. The only issue I have is the alerts are reported in UTC, I’d prefer if I was able to set this in preferences so it can report in EST.
Love this app. Something I've used as I've always liked uptimerobots dashboards self hosted and has been a great compliment to my PRTG monitoring for just basic info that I can give to customers or just have for myself. The fact it can use a bunch of notification options is also really nice. I use slack and its nearly instant notices.
Just the thing I was looking for! After having kibana eating up loooots of resources for merely a simple setup I feel like I finally found ultimate tool. Thanks Chuck!
The coffee brakes have a good effect on your thinking and speaking speed :D Nearly i need also some caffeine also to hold up with that but its right on my edge. today.
You could combine a few of Chuck's videos and use Portainer to deploy UptimeKuma in a VPS/Linode that uses ZeroTier to connect to your internal or other devices. Sweet.
To see if a host is up this might be ok. But for my personal likings it's lacking so much I get from imo better monitoring solutions like prometheus, zabbix, influxdb etc. Health idicators, like memory usage, disk usage and cpu usage can help way better by analyziging why a host is down.
I love your tutorials! Especially your enthusiasm; you make this stuff fun. I have just one objection: vim over nano. ;) Back in college (ahem 1990s) we had to use vi. I mean that's all I could afford. LOL
Start monitoring with UpTime Kuma on Linode: ntck.co/linode ($100 Credit good for 60 days as a new user!)
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0:00 ⏩ Intro
1:53 ⏩ Uptime Kuma Cloud setup
2:51 ⏩ UpTime Kuma Home lab setup
5:23 ⏩ Add a new monitor in UpTime Kuma
10:26 ⏩ Setting up notifications in Uptime Kuma
12:52 ⏩ the Uptime Kuma status page
The Linode link isn't working (10:25 pacific)
Hi chuck i hope you see this message :
Can I use this with proxmox in a kali VM?
I love this channel! I've been a hardcore fan since early 2020
Why do you promote Linode, they are the worst. They accuse customers of being frauds so to avoid signing them up. Also, they keep debiting people's debit and credit cards every month, even after cancellation.
@@Ali-lm7uw In comparison to Google their cool. Google and the rest of big tech is sinister in their monopoly.
And linode is cheap and offer better features in my opinion
Your the best :))))
Great video Chuck! Huge fan of Uptime Kuma!
I bet he watched your video. I enjoyed your video Techno Tim and built mine shortly there after.
Im a big fan of uptime kuma because of TechnoTim 😂😂 best of 2022 for me
i got it from you first 😂. but i didn't go docker. had a debian 12 lxc in proxmox... went with pm2. amazing stuff.
Tim's here, salute
For once, Im ahead of Chuck, been using this for the past few months, and I did start it off on Linode, before moving it to a dedicated server of my own.
Same
it's my second time, I have been using Portainer for 2 years now
I know right! same here
Haha same here - as soon as I saw the screenshot I thought "ooh I know what this is gonna be". Love Uptime Kuma 👍👍🤓
What if he was using it for months, years and was just waiting for the right moment to make a video about it
If you want your channel to be consistent, you don’t really share everything you know in one go
Really loved how simple and easy it is to setup and so much fun to play around with it.
Good information, thanks!
Additionally i use small free prog EasyNetMonitor...
finally a simple monitoring tool. easy setup easy use. i tried a bunch of other softwares and all of them are overengineered chaos with endless setup and configurations. love it
I love it. I've been using it for 3 months now. I use Teams and Discord for notifications depending on the setup.
I haven't looked at network monitoring since fighting with nagios and What's Up Gold at work several years back. This seems much easier to set up, Chuck. I definitely want to get this running in my home lab.
I remember struggling with Nagios to monitor remote sites when the power went out at those sites and the backup power kicked in. Used Nagios to read codes off the UPS and sent email alerts. Man that thing was great amd finicky at the same time. This looks to be what Nagios could have been.
@@thereare4lights137 I tried Nagios free and I passed that right up. Zabbix however is still with a learning curve to setup however compared to Nagios, it's leagues easier with much of the same functionality.
Hey Chuck. I followed your advice on how to get a job in it and let me tell you I've been working at my new it job for 3 months because of you man. Thank you for the information and inspiration I needed 🙏
Thank you very much Chuck. I built this in my Private ESXi and have been using it for a week now. I can't express well enough how happy i am with this tool.
This is the best moment of the day, watching a new video from Chuck and learning new tools to ease my work. Thanks Chuck.
Keep up the videos! These really helped me out rebooting into a civilian career going on 20 years in the military
You're a lifesaver.. I have 2 job roles and can't monitor all 8 servers all the time.. At least now I'll be able to be one step ahead of the users...
Might want to use prtg for that, this seems to only check availability, not SNMP status?
Great video as always. I notice that you display the LR66CR! I just got some too!
Funnily enough, I just deployed uptime-kuma locally to watch all the services in my LAN and also in the cloud (oracle) to watch the few that are accessible externally, and you just made a video about it :)) Very impressed with Uptime Kuma so far!
This is so F***ing amazing that I deployed one up and configured everything even before finishing the video, omg that's what i was searching for a long time, so easy to use....
As somebody who's been using Linux for 25 years, every time I hear you say "soo-doh" rather than "soo-doo" I wanna click the X in the upper right corner...but you're just too damn entertaining and informative.
Wow, I might have to replace my Nagios server at Linode with UpTimeKuma,.. whaaaaaat. Welcome to the future.
Great video. Now I’m using it on my Homelab server too. It’s awesome.
Hi chuck ❤️,loved your new setup
New week up as many FOMO in. But the LR66CR story isn’t over yet. The only strat that works under all circumstances is DCA all the time with solid, large companies (not hyped ones).
Love your content chuck love you continue bro all the support from lebanon ♥️♥️🔥
I love the recent vids, very educational
Especially AdGuard, just set it up, it’s sooo awesome
Excellent content. I used the last dip to stock up, buying LR66CR now its cheap, can't miss the presale.
You made me think back about Kuma. Need to try it. Thanks chuck
been using uptime kuma for a few months now, I love it!
Got this baby up and running on a raspberry pi for my home network w/ the discord notification plugin enabled. Thanks for this nugget, Chuck!
For anyone running home assistant, there's an add-on for uptime kuma that sets it up for you. Just go into Settings / Add-Ons / Add-On Store / and scroll down to the Community Add-ons.
Deployed using my free tier AWS instance. Works a treat. Thanks for the guide on how to setup.
Installed and monitors added while the video was playing. Great tip Chuck.
Just added telegram alerts - stupidly easy and works amazingly. Pretty happy with that.
Unless I am missing something obvious, Uptime Kuma is lacking two very important monitoring protocols: SNMP and WMI. Sure, you can use a ping monitor, but you are missing out on so much useful data by not being able to use those two protocols. Think I will hold off on this until they are added. I REALLY wish that SolarWinds would fork an open source branch of their software!
What's up Gold
NetworkChuck has a video on it
Nice looking and simple setup. But what for are you using docker-compose for just a simple container? docker is more than enough.
Thanks chuk just set mine up at oci , one instance running pihole openvpn server wireguard and uptime kuma. Sickk
I see your uptime kuba and I raise you a better solution.
Zabbix.
Uptime Kuma is good for basic ping/uptime checks sure.
But what about CPU, Memory, and Hard Drive utilization.
What if you want to see bandwidth utilization per interface you have and compare the error rate on those interfaces.
Introducing SNMP(v3) do not push SNMPv2 over the internet and always use SNMPv3 where you can.
SNMP is the industry standard monitoring solution for various tools.
Zabbix goes a bit further allowing you to run commands via an agent on the server in question to glean any information you want.
What to check non network related services running on a server? You can do that and so much more.
Hey Chuck, can you do a video on network traffic analysis for cybersecurity? Great videos btw
@Beni I know wireshark is a powerful tool, but is there a package that is more intuitive or user friendly
Perfect tempo and humor for a tutorial! 🙂🍺
amazing app, you should really go more into detail such as setting up groups and setting up sms or smtp notifications which I imagine for most would be the most common
I've been using it for quite some time now, and it works great, never had any problems with it
Had never heard of this software, but it's excellent. Thanks for sharing! =D Great video, keep up the good work!
That was much easier than setting up a Grafana dashboard. Thanks, Chuck.
3:46 Uptime Kuma maintainer here. I love your video too! Thanks for sharing Uptime Kuma with the world.
I just set this up on my local container server and it’s pretty sweet.
I will give this a try, I think if I get a server running for something at home anytime soon then I will use this
in our studio, we use this, to monitor all our render farms and servers, for a bit more than one year, and it is a damn good application.
We set it up on a raspi with a dedicated UPS and 4G connection. Highly recommended
From the first video to the last, it's life changing. Amazing content
Dude, your content is the best! I'm not a full-time techie, so I learn SO MUCH watching your content! TY!
Dude, wish I could like it twice!!! You just made my day.. Wait! You actually made my YEAR!! Keep up the good work. You rock. Cheers mate
I did even install a home server just to use this awesome tool. Great tutorial, thanks
Everyone knows that dark mode increases performance by 23%. Glad to see you're up Chuck.
wow I love how you've developed as a creator over the last few years! Great job, keep up the work :D
I installed it on my cloud like 3 weeks ago and now I saw the video and was excited that you also use it
Quality of this video is off the scale! Good work and really useful video.
Thanks for recommending Slack. Been using uptime Kuma wasn't sure which was a good notification service to use.
I really appreciate you setting it up with compose - a lot of tutorials use terminal docker commands. As for Uptime Kuma, it would be nice to be able to sync two instances for redundancies sake.
Docker is useful if you learn it. I prefer it over just about anything, unless I already have a dedicated virtual server system.
@@_Nothsa I do too, I just use docker-compose instead of docker run commands.
@@yeastdonkey846 Of course you do, who uses docker commands only if they are not insane? With docker compose you can preserve all the info in a file and restart/update in seconds.
Epic one chuck! Quick question!! Can this be done on proxmox? I gad just set up proxmox on my old laptop. Following your vid, and don't have another spare pc
Very cool! installed it and added my servers to it. Thank You! Lol I even added my roommate's phone wifi connection so I know if they are at the house or not.
Holy shit! Never knew this was so easy to setup. I'm convinced, thanks again for a brilliant video!!!
who knew this was an ad, but I still enjoy your content chuck
Wow. Much easier than setting up RRD with Cactus etc back in the day. Nice. Thanks for the walkthrough.
Keyword monitoring gives me an idea, load pages that sell certain thing you’re interested in , then set keyword something like “Sale” so that if it finds the sale it notifies you. Great around holidays when looking to buy that sweet expensive piece of tech😅
This is called webscraping
thank you for the video. Had a bit of trouble setting it up on my homelab at first, mainly because I've never used Docker containers before and didn't know how they behaved.
Had to change the network_mode to "host" and thus remove the port assignments because i am running it in an VM on my server and didn't find another way to actually connect to it from my machine. Works though, so all is good.
I use Zabbix to monitoring almost 400 linux servers and some Cisco devices... Load Averages, storage, ram, services, websites, generate scheduled reports. Grafana for dashboards and more statistics... It's not a solution "out-of-the-box" but, once you've configured it properly, it works flawlessly... Great video. I loved it
4:20 - why do you use "docker-compose" instead of "docker compose"? Notice the space... Maybe no reason, or because it's what you've always done, but I _think_ "docker-compose" is an additional package to install, while "docker compose" is part of the standard docker package. Uptime Kuma looks cool though.
This is a pretty cool tutorial. I setup a simple Ubuntu server VM on my media server (Windows 10 because reasons) and set it to auto start with the media server and boom, it can now monitor all my media stuff, Radarr, Sonarr, even my Pi-Hole VM which runs on the same server. What a time to be alive...
I just spun up a new Ubuntu server VM and set this up on it. This thing is awesome!
Fun project that involves this when installed in the home lab -
Set a DHCP reservation for the phone of your spouse or child, then set up a ping monitor for that IP. Now you know if they're home, so if you can access this remotely you can always know if that person/persons are home. You get alerts when they leave. Well, or shut off their phone.
You can also use something like home assistant for this if you are into the smart home like me
They can just turn off wifi and data, right? I have them on only when I use them, so most of the tome they are off.
@@RaduRadonys That is possible, but no one really does that so it's still valid. Especially young people, since they just HAVE to be connected.
Great video Chuck! Thanks.
Yeah I could've used this tool years ago.
Thanks for the hint, this is awesome Chuck :)
Thank you!! Noob question, how do I update this software to the latest version using docker?
Nice one, I install on VM and connected via Wireguard to my home network to also monitor internal devices as also monitoring external devices as if home network goes down I won't get any alerts but hosting it externally I get alerts for this and any other network I may want to monitor all in one place :D
Flipping Awesome!! - one question .....what are you running PLEX on please?
Wow !! Your channel is great ! I am discovering so many cool tools !
Cheers from Lille, France.
I remember, years ago. I used nmap to do this... This is so much easier than making a script to automate the checks.
I've deployed LibreNMS to monitor 4 sites which I manage. Very similar concept. Handy stuff!
Love this tool! just got it set up yesterday to monitor my docker containers 👍👍 love watching your videos and have learned so much from them already just within a few months!!
heyy Upchuck! This looks amazing. I wish uptime kuma would support flows (xflow, netflow) and it would be overkill. Thanks for the content
Thanks Chuck! You're awesome!
Happy Holidays!
Maan, I was needing this video!
Saw uptime kuma a while ago. Will give it a go in K3s. It looks awesome
wow thanks! There is even a Home Assistant add on for this!! I love home assistant!
I love this tool. Funny thing is in built my own version and it didn’t provide a fraction the functionality of UpTime Kuma. It’s easy, the interface is beautiful and it works great. I send my alerts to a slack channel. Couldn’t be simpler. The only issue I have is the alerts are reported in UTC, I’d prefer if I was able to set this in preferences so it can report in EST.
Love this tool!!! I use Authentik to secure the status pages because they dont require authentication by default.
Love this app. Something I've used as I've always liked uptimerobots dashboards self hosted and has been a great compliment to my PRTG monitoring for just basic info that I can give to customers or just have for myself. The fact it can use a bunch of notification options is also really nice. I use slack and its nearly instant notices.
Just the thing I was looking for! After having kibana eating up loooots of resources for merely a simple setup I feel like I finally found ultimate tool. Thanks Chuck!
The coffee brakes have a good effect on your thinking and speaking speed :D Nearly i need also some caffeine also to hold up with that but its right on my edge. today.
You could combine a few of Chuck's videos and use Portainer to deploy UptimeKuma in a VPS/Linode that uses ZeroTier to connect to your internal or other devices. Sweet.
Yeah! This will be awesome. Or something like using HomeAssistantOS or umbrel to have multiple apps on a single Raspberry PI on the same UI
Yeah, I'm planning on using this tool in my VPS, which already connects to my LAN through my NAS with Wireguard.
To see if a host is up this might be ok. But for my personal likings it's lacking so much I get from imo better monitoring solutions like prometheus, zabbix, influxdb etc. Health idicators, like memory usage, disk usage and cpu usage can help way better by analyziging why a host is down.
Great video, as always, upChuck!
I added this video on my favorite playlist! That's a brilliant tool and a awesome video! Definitely using it!
Just found this channel. I´m already in love 😍. Good stuff!!
While setting this up, I discovered that several of my services were down... Thank you.
Back in the day, we used SNMP and Big Brother and it wasn't easy, This is like monitoring for Dummy's (as in the Book), love it.
Super video Chuck your videos are awesome And informative
I love your tutorials! Especially your enthusiasm; you make this stuff fun. I have just one objection: vim over nano. ;) Back in college (ahem 1990s) we had to use vi. I mean that's all I could afford. LOL
Love this. I used to use Nagios but I really like this one. Super easy to setup and use following your direcitons. Thanks for the video!
Just got this setup and it's looking great! It doesn't seem to like sites behind Cloudflare though
Awesome tool chuck now I can monitor stuff during the holidays🤠
It's awesome! Just installed it with the smallest Azure VM for 4$ a month...BOOM! 🙂 Thanks, dude!
WOW!!!!You are the man!!! Thank Chuck. This is AWESOME!!!
Chuck Windows + . is the emoji keyboard for windows
uptime kuma is just awesome. I'm hosting it on my homelab- server (umbrel os) monitoring my website, my messaging server and other docker containers.
Hey, I saw a glimpse of a password manager in your video. Which password management software are you using?