Slightly related, but I've also been working on and off for a few years on my own Type 1 Diabetes management solution (https://github.com/algao1/iv3) to send alerts and such. I was thinking of eventually incorporating some kind of automatic remedial solution eventually to help keep my glucose in range, but haven't had any time to look into it yet. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If you go to the settings, there should be a notification category, which then contains another menu "App Notifications" where you can see all the apps that are allowed to receive notifications, but I don't know if this will stop google play services to receive these identifiers. I use GrapheneOS, so I don't have any google play services running, but for the apps where I need notifications I use... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING. In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I connect any app that supports https://unifiedpush.org/ to a self hosted https://ntfy.sh instance for fully self hosted push notifications. Source: 6 months ago

Changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh. Source: 6 months ago

Either http://deadmanssnitch.com/ or if you have an existing solution for posting metrics, alert on missing data. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

You're looking for a dead man's switch. https://deadmanssnitch.com is a good hosted service or Uptime Kuma (https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) can be configured to do the same thing. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Deadmanssnitch.com — Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

If you are ok with a Saas and if it's just scheduled jobs that you are monitoring, there are a number of monitoring tools where you tell when job completes (with a http request) and a missing ping (after a grace period) means that it failed. I think https://deadmanssnitch.com/ may have been the original service for this. https://healthchecks.io/ has a fairly generous free tier that I use now. There are others that... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

There's a great service already existing with a riff on that name, even - https://deadmanssnitch.com/ DMS is useful for stuff like crons where you're trying to monitor an event that happened rather than whether a service is online. No way to ping a cronjob from the outside world, but the cron can report that it ran successfully. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago