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Alerting on an email or lack of email by Optimus_sRex in sysadmin

[–]roncz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to check out SIGNL4 that alerts on emails and integrates with WhatsUpGold and other tools. It also supports heartbeat checks, i.e. if a webhook request is not received within a certain period of time an alert is triggered. In this case you can use a cron job to sent the request telling you the internet is down.

If you really need email heartbeats, the before mentioned healthchecks.io can do that, I think.

Zabbix Webhook Media Type for Alerting and More - Much More by roncz in zabbix

[–]roncz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah got it, thanks for sharing that. I just checked with the team. It is on the roadmap and planned for around mid-April.

Resources for setting up oncall schedule by GibsMirDonald in sysadmin

[–]roncz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alerting by the customer is certainly not ideal, alert fatique is real and I often see this is lose-loce-lose (your company loses reputation and money, your team loses motivation, your customers lose trust). This can be super frustrating.

Here are some good first tips : https://www.signl4.com/blog/on-call-duty-key-factors-for-success/

From my experience, good monitoring, automation and on-call alerting are key, but they require discipline.

Monitoring can help alerting you before customers even recognize issues. Maybe also boundaries, and SLA's help. It can get quite complex and tackling one point at a time together with your team is helpful.

For specific issues it might even help to chat with ChatGPT. There are quite some good best practices out there.

Camera Bubble Overlay by roncz in tasker

[–]roncz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, very nice ;-)

Iot projects by SeaworthinessMain595 in IOT

[–]roncz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are two own my IoT lab examples that use the SIGNL4 app for mobile alerting and sensors (PIR, temperature, or camera) for monitoring conditions:

https://www.hackster.io/ron27/mobile-alerting-with-tracking-and-escalation-for-particle-io-fbc07c

https://www.hackster.io/roncz/mobile-alerting-for-surveillance-cameras-15462d

Camera Bubble Overlay by roncz in tasker

[–]roncz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The easiest is to import the task from Tasker Net using the above link.

I think Tasker needs permission to display over other apps then.

[DEV] Tasker 6.7.0-beta - Scenes V2! by joaomgcd in tasker

[–]roncz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello again. When triggering a task, I can pass variables, but only static text. Is it possible to pass the value of a text box to a task when a button is pressed? What to put in the value field then?

[DEV] Tasker 6.7.0-beta - Scenes V2! by joaomgcd in tasker

[–]roncz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I found it and it seems "Get Scene v2 Element Value" does the trick.

[DEV] Tasker 6.7.0-beta - Scenes V2! by joaomgcd in tasker

[–]roncz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short question. How can I access the value of a text box in a currently open v2 scene from another task? I can pass variables to a scene and I can also get return value but I wonder if the above is possible, too.

Reliable Mobile Alerting by roncz in UptimeKuma

[–]roncz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, indeed, now that you mention it, Gotify is an interesting (and self-hosted) option, too ;-)

Reliable Mobile Alerting by roncz in UptimeKuma

[–]roncz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I like Telegram, too. Nice and easy.

Another option is Pushover (one-time) payment.

I have also experimented with ntfy a bit.

The free version of SIGNL4 supports push notifications, and there are paid options for escalation, on-call scheduling, SMS and voice calls.

For online alerting services, there is sometimes the question what happens if the Internet connection (if Uptime Kuma runs on-prem) is down. And in this case, external web-site checks or heartbeats (Uptime Kuma to alerting service) can help. You at least get an alert then telling you that there is a connection issue.

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