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Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma

Three-part series covering Uptime Kuma installation, notifications, and advanced features for homelab monitoring.

3 parts · 27 min of reading

Part 1: Tutorial
Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 1: Install & First Monitors
Install Uptime Kuma on a Proxmox LXC container, set up five monitor types (Ping, HTTP, Keyword, TCP, DNS), and simulate failures to see which monitor catches what.
Mar 17, 2026~25 minDifficulty: beginner
Part 2: Tutorial
Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 2: Notifications & Alerts
Get alerted the moment a service goes down. Add Pushover and Discord notification channels to Uptime Kuma and enable them across your existing monitors.
Mar 24, 2026~25 minDifficulty: beginner
Part 3: Tutorial
Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 3: Advanced Features
Take Uptime Kuma further with monitor groups, tags, SSL certificate-expiry checks, a public status page, and maintenance windows to silence planned downtime.
Mar 24, 2026~30 minDifficulty: beginner