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 <[email protected]> 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
