Uptime Kuma Setup: The Self-Hosted Monitoring Stack You'll Actually Keep Running Why Self-Host Your Uptime Monitoring? Pingdom starts at $15/month for 10 monitors. Better Uptime charges per team member. StatusCake's free tier checks every 5 minutes at best. And all of them store y... DevOps Docker Monitoring Self-Hosting Uptime Kuma Jun 21, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Beszel with Docker Compose + Caddy on Ubuntu Operations teams managing more than two servers quickly discover that shell-hopping to check disk pressure, CPU saturation, and container health does not scale. Beszel solves that problem with a light... Beszel Infrastructure Monitoring Self-hosting caddy devops docker docker compose ubuntu Jun 6, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose + Caddy on Ubuntu Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that gives engineering teams real-time visibility into service availability. Unlike SaaS uptime monitors that charge per check or require trusting a third ... Caddy DevOps Docker Monitoring Self-Hosted Ubuntu Uptime Kuma Jun 4, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Scrutiny Disk Health Monitor with Docker Compose + Caddy on Ubuntu Hard drives fail silently. By the time you notice a filesystem error or a kernel panic, your data may already be gone. Scrutiny is a lightweight, self-hosted S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tool that polls your... Caddy Docker Compose Monitoring Self-Hosting Ubuntu Jun 1, 2026
How to Deploy Glances with Docker Compose and Nginx Proxy Manager (Production Guide) Operations teams often need quick visibility into CPU pressure, memory saturation, disk contention, and network throughput without standing up a full observability platform on day one. Glances offers ... DevOps Docker Compose Glances Monitoring Nginx Proxy Manager May 16, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy changedetection.io with Docker Compose + Caddy + Playwright on Ubuntu A small operations team often needs to know when a vendor status page, a pricing page, a documentation page, or a competitor landing page changes, but sending those checks through a third-party SaaS i... Caddy Docker Compose Monitoring Self-Hosting changedetection.io May 1, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy VictoriaMetrics with Docker Compose + NGINX + systemd + UFW on Ubuntu If your team needs long-retention metrics without the operational weight of a full observability stack, VictoriaMetrics is a practical choice. In many environments, Prometheus works well for short ret... DevOps Docker Compose Monitoring NGINX Ubuntu VictoriaMetrics Apr 25, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Netdata with Docker Compose + Caddy on Ubuntu Most teams do not fail because they lack metrics; they fail because their monitoring stack is hard to operate under pressure. During an incident, you need fast host visibility, low-friction dashboards... Caddy Docker Compose Guides Monitoring Netdata Ubuntu Apr 23, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Uptime Kuma with Docker Compose + NGINX + PostgreSQL on Ubuntu When monitoring is unreliable, teams do not just lose graphs—they lose time in the most expensive minutes of an incident. A practical self-hosted uptime stack gives operations teams ownership over pro... DevOps Guides Monitoring Self-Hosting Uptime Kuma Apr 21, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Prometheus with Docker Compose + Caddy + Alertmanager on Ubuntu When infrastructure grows beyond a few services, teams often discover that ad-hoc checks and disconnected dashboards are not enough to catch outages early. A production monitoring stack needs predicta... DevOps Monitoring Prometheus Ubuntu Apr 18, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Zabbix with Docker Compose + Traefik + PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Zabbix is still one of the most practical ways to run infrastructure monitoring in small and mid-size environments: it is open-source, supports deep host/service checks, and gives you alerting, dashbo... DevOps Docker Guides Monitoring Traefik Zabbix Apr 17, 2026
Production Guide: Deploy Uptime Kuma with Rootless Podman + systemd + Caddy on Ubuntu Uptime checks are often the first line of defense for small teams running multiple apps without a full observability stack. In practice, the challenge is not just installing a monitor, but deploying i... Caddy Monitoring Podman Uptime Kuma systemd Apr 16, 2026