How to monitor uptime with Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma periodically checks whether your sites and services respond and alerts you immediately when something goes down. It has a clean interface and is easy to use.

1. Install with one click

The simplest way is to pick Uptime Kuma from the app catalog when creating the server.

Or manually with Docker

docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 \
  -v uptime-kuma:/app/data --name uptime-kuma louislam/uptime-kuma:1

2. Add a monitor

In the interface, you add an HTTP(s) monitor with the site address and the check interval (for example 60 seconds).

3. Configure notifications

Uptime Kuma sends alerts to email, Telegram, Discord, Slack and many more. For email, you need SMTP settings, see sending email over SMTP.

4. What you can monitor

• Websites (HTTP response code).
• Expiring SSL certificates, see SSL monitoring.
• Services on a port (databases, APIs).

Put Uptime Kuma on a different server than the one being monitored, so it can alert you even if the main server goes down completely.