Uptime Kuma watches everything in my homelab: the NAS, the Proxmox host and its containers, the media apps, DNS, the internet connection. It’s great at noticing problems. But I only saw them when I remembered to open a browser tab, or when a notification arrived and I had to go find out what it meant.

I wanted the answer to “is everything OK at home?” to be one glance at the top of my screen. So I built KumaStatusBar, a small macOS menu bar app for Uptime Kuma. It’s free, and it’s in Apple’s App Store review as I write this.