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Self‐hosted uptime monitoring: why it matters and how we implement it

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Reliability is a key factor for any online service. When a website, API, or database becomes unavailable, it immediately affects users, business processes, and reputation. To detect and prevent such situations in time, uptime monitoring is essential.

We are building a self-hosted monitoring solution that helps teams keep their services under control, receive timely alerts, and maintain infrastructure stability. Our platform combines convenience, flexibility, and a fully autonomous approach — everything runs on your servers and under your control.

Self hosted uptime monitor: reliable infrastructure control

Our solution is a full-fledged self hosted uptime monitor that operates inside your infrastructure, providing availability tracking for your entire technology stack: from web services to databases and message brokers. The system is flexible, easy to deploy, and independent of external clouds.

Why choose self-hosted monitoring

Full control over the system

Your data never leaves your environment: it stays on your servers, in your database, within your infrastructure. You define the rules — security, storage, integrations.

Independence from external platforms

Cloud services may experience outages, change pricing, or modify policies. A self-hosted solution eliminates these risks: the system remains available even when external services encounter issues.

Flexible configuration for your architecture

You can monitor everything that matters to your team: websites, APIs, databases, message brokers, internal services in private networks, Docker containers, and much more.

Fast incident notification

The platform immediately reports issues through Telegram, Slack, email, WhatsApp, Discord, Webhook, and many other channels.

Status pages for users and the team

You can create public or private service status pages—an easy way to show current availability and reduce support requests.

Key capabilities of our platform

Supported check types

The platform monitors dozens of service types and protocols:

  • HTTP/HTTPS

  • Ping (ICMP)

  • TCP

  • DNS

  • Webhook (push mode)

  • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MSSQL

  • Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT

  • Docker containers

  • gRPC, SNMP and others.

Alerts and integrations

We support many alert delivery methods: Telegram, Slack, email, Webhook, Google Chat, Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal, PagerDuty, and more.

Status pages

Create availability pages for customers, the internal team, or separate projects — all configured from the dashboard.

Flexible storage

SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB are supported — choose what matches your scale and load.

Security

Built-in MFA, brute-force protection, access management, and SSL certificate checks ensure system security.

How to get started with Peekaping

  1. Deploy the platform on your server or VPS.

  2. Configure SQLite/PostgreSQL/MongoDB.

  3. Start the server via Docker or a binary package.

  4. Add monitors.

  5. Configure notifications.

  6. Create a status page.

Installation takes just minutes, and the benefits appear immediately.

Conclusion

Self-hosted monitoring means independence, security, and predictability. Our service is a modern self hosted uptime monitor that helps teams detect failures early, improve service stability, and provide transparency to users. This is not just a check system — it is the foundation of a reliable infrastructure.