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Uptime Kuma

Is everything up? Per-service monitoring, history, alerts, and a status page · https://up.fmm.house

What it's for

Uptime Kuma watches your services and tells you the moment one goes down. Each thing you care about — a website, a DNS resolver, a host on the LAN — becomes a monitor that's checked on a schedule. You get up/down status at a glance, response-time history, uptime percentages, and notifications when something breaks. There's also a public-style status page you can share.

Getting in

  • Open: https://up.fmm.house — on the home Wi-Fi/LAN, or from anywhere with Tailscale connected.
  • Sign in: admin-oriented. Log in with your Uptime Kuma account (set on first run).

How to use it

Read the dashboard

The left column lists every monitor with a colored dot — green = up, red = down, and a heartbeat bar showing recent checks. Click a monitor to see its detail: current response time, the uptime % over 24h / 30d / 1y, average latency, and a history graph. A wall of green means the fleet is healthy; a red dot is where to look first.

Add a monitor

  1. Click Add New Monitor.
  2. Pick a Monitor Type — HTTP(s) for a web service, Ping for a host, DNS to check a resolver, plus TCP port, keyword, and others.
  3. Fill in the target (URL or host) and a friendly Friendly Name.
  4. Set the Heartbeat Interval (how often to check) and Retries before it's marked down.
  5. Save — it starts checking immediately.

Tip

For an HTTPS service, a plain up/down check only confirms it answered. Use the keyword type to also verify the page contains expected text, so you catch "responds but broken" cases.

Set up a notification

  1. Go to Settings → Notifications → Setup Notification.
  2. Choose a provider (Telegram, email/SMTP, webhook, and many more) and enter its details.
  3. Test it, then Save.
  4. Attach it to monitors — either tick it while editing a monitor, or enable "apply to all existing monitors."

The status page

Under Status Pages, create a page and drag the monitors you want to display onto it. It gives a clean, shareable board of what's up — handy as a household "is the internet/HA down?" page. You control which monitors appear, so it can stay lighter than your full admin dashboard.

Tips

  • Interval vs. noise. Very short intervals catch outages faster but generate more alerts on flaky links — 60s is a sane default for most home services.
  • Retries stop false alarms. A retry count of 1–2 keeps a single dropped check from paging you over a momentary blip.
  • Notifications are opt-in per monitor. Adding a notification provider doesn't attach it — make sure your important monitors actually have it enabled.