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.

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.