Uptime Kuma in Enhance

ecomlabs

Hi everyone!

I've been using Enhance for a couple of months now and I think it's fantastic, even though I consider myself a beginner.

I'm trying to unify services and I was wondering what the best way would be to add Kuma uptime to an Enhance cluster.

Should I do it on the main master server?
Should I do it on a separate cluster independent of the websites?
Is it possible to do it as a website?

The goal is to save costs. I am a user of the cPFence tool, but the monitor (although it is good) falls a little short when it comes to notifying my clients.

Thank you so much for everything, and as always, congratulations to the Enhance team on what they're building. I love the tool.

cPFence

ecomlabs

From a hosting provider perspective, it’s better to keep monitoring alerts for admins only. Sending them directly to clients often leads to unnecessary tickets, especially when there’s a small outage or a false positive. If you have many clients, this can become daily noise, so try to double-check alerts before passing anything to customers.

For Kuma setup, I recommend this walkthrough by @webnestify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc8hZk9IX2o

nhybgtvfr

i would recommend having your primary monitoring on a separate vps to any other essential hosting services.
ideally on another network / datacentre.
something like the cx23 vps at hetzner is way more than needed to run uptime-kuma and would only be 3.49 euros/month. so you could easily run a few other non-essential services on that vps as well.

if it's on the same server, it would either not notice any network issues connecting to services on the same vps, or problems on that vps could stop it sending any alerts, so you wouldn't know there's any problems anyway.

you could (should) also add an instance of uptime-kuma on a 2nd server, could easily go on one of the hosting servers, panel server etc.. and have this instance just monitor the main uptime-kuma instance and alert if there's any problems with that..