Recommendation: Good paging / alerting software ?
Hi there, I'm looking for a recommendation for a good paging / alerting system *for personal use*. I'm monitoring a number of servers, VMs, routers / switches and such, and currently get ~10 pages a week. Things I've already tried: I'm currently using OpsGenie, but don't really like the UI. I briefly tried PagerTree, and have used PagerDuty in the past -- I was happy with PagerDuty, but don't really want to be paying $10 per month for this (it's just for personal use, and that seemed a bit excessive). I'm also a happy Pushover customer - this works well, but it's ability to customise / close alerts seems to be missing. It works really well for other types of notifications though. Requirements: 1: Cheap! 2 : AlertManager integration - I mainly use Prometheus for monitoring, and it sends alerts to AlertManager. 3: I'd like an iOS / Android app - having things come in over SMS / messages makes it too easy to miss things. I also don't want to use e.g Slack for this because it's too easy to miss them amongst other messages. 4: A web interface would be nice, but not 100% necessary. 5: "Alerts" - the ability to Ack / Close alerts. This signals back to AlertManger. 6: Escalations would be nice - if I don't respond to an alert in N minutes, send it again, possibly with a more grumpy noise. Because this is just for personal use I really don't want to be spending money on this... Thanks in advance for any suggestions... W -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf
https://papertrailapp.com <https://papertrailapp.com/> might meet your needs. They have a free tier and collect syslog messages in their cloud and then have various alerting methods such as SMS, web hooks, email, etc. you could leverage to get the alerts you want. Good luck.
On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good paging / alerting system *for personal use*.
I'm monitoring a number of servers, VMs, routers / switches and such, and currently get ~10 pages a week.
Things I've already tried: I'm currently using OpsGenie, but don't really like the UI. I briefly tried PagerTree, and have used PagerDuty in the past -- I was happy with PagerDuty, but don't really want to be paying $10 per month for this (it's just for personal use, and that seemed a bit excessive). I'm also a happy Pushover customer - this works well, but it's ability to customise / close alerts seems to be missing. It works really well for other types of notifications though.
Requirements: 1: Cheap!
2 : AlertManager integration - I mainly use Prometheus for monitoring, and it sends alerts to AlertManager.
3: I'd like an iOS / Android app - having things come in over SMS / messages makes it too easy to miss things. I also don't want to use e.g Slack for this because it's too easy to miss them amongst other messages.
4: A web interface would be nice, but not 100% necessary.
5: "Alerts" - the ability to Ack / Close alerts. This signals back to AlertManger.
6: Escalations would be nice - if I don't respond to an alert in N minutes, send it again, possibly with a more grumpy noise.
Because this is just for personal use I really don't want to be spending money on this...
Thanks in advance for any suggestions... W
-- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf
Have you tried uptime robot? I believe you qualify for the free tier, there is a limit of SMS messages but email to text services at most providers can be substituted to circumvent that. -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
On Sep 26, 2019, at 09:42, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good paging / alerting system *for personal use*.
I'm monitoring a number of servers, VMs, routers / switches and such, and currently get ~10 pages a week.
Things I've already tried: I'm currently using OpsGenie, but don't really like the UI. I briefly tried PagerTree, and have used PagerDuty in the past -- I was happy with PagerDuty, but don't really want to be paying $10 per month for this (it's just for personal use, and that seemed a bit excessive). I'm also a happy Pushover customer - this works well, but it's ability to customise / close alerts seems to be missing. It works really well for other types of notifications though.
Requirements: 1: Cheap!
2 : AlertManager integration - I mainly use Prometheus for monitoring, and it sends alerts to AlertManager.
3: I'd like an iOS / Android app - having things come in over SMS / messages makes it too easy to miss things. I also don't want to use e.g Slack for this because it's too easy to miss them amongst other messages.
4: A web interface would be nice, but not 100% necessary.
5: "Alerts" - the ability to Ack / Close alerts. This signals back to AlertManger.
6: Escalations would be nice - if I don't respond to an alert in N minutes, send it again, possibly with a more grumpy noise.
Because this is just for personal use I really don't want to be spending money on this...
Thanks in advance for any suggestions... W
-- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:42 AM Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good paging / alerting system *for personal use*.
For personal use, I use gmail. Create a label "pageme," have the monitor send emails to yourname+pageme@gmail.com and set up label notifications on your android gmail app so you get a noise when something hits the pageme label. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
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