Healthchecks - Tag - Defingo Nethttps://defingo.net/tags/healthchecks/Healthchecks - Tag - Defingo NetHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usodd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)odd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Who Tells You the Homelab Is Down?https://defingo.net/posts/homelab-dead-mans-switch/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000odd.grape2822@defingo.net (William E. Whitaker, Jr)https://defingo.net/posts/homelab-dead-mans-switch/My homelab has a decent alerting setup. Uptime Kuma watches about eighty monitors, ntfy collects the things I should review, and Signal gets the things I need to act on. While writing it all down, I noticed something uncomfortable: every one of those pieces runs inside the lab.

Kuma runs on the Proxmox host. ntfy, Apprise and the Signal gateway run on the NAS. Both sit on the same UPS, behind the same internet connection. If the power goes out long enough, or the internet drops, or the NAS hangs, the thing that’s supposed to tell me about the problem is part of the problem.

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