cross-posted from: https://discuss.ntfy.sh/post/3200

I use ntfy (on another instance) + healthchecks.io to wake me up at night when ntfy.sh is down (crazy inception, right?). It’s the “poor man’s PagerDuty” if you will. It works amazingly.

Here’s how I set it up:

  • I signed up healthchecks.io (free plan) and configured a project for “ntfy.sh” with a “ntfy” integration, i.e. publish to ntfy.example.com/<secret> with max priority
  • I have two different hosts execute small “integration ntfy.sh tests” and only ping healthchecks.io if they succeed. If they don’t healthchecks.io will publish to ntfy.example.com/<secret>
  • In the ntfy Android app, I subscribe to ntfy.example.com/<secret>, enable “Keep alerting on highest priority”, and make it override DND (do not disturb) for this topic.

Now when ntfy.sh goes down, the integration tests in the cronjobs will fail, and so healthchecks.io will not be pinged, which will trigger it to publish to ntfy.example.com/<secret> and let my phone consistently ring until I acknowledge it.

(Disclamer: I am the maintainer of ntfy. Hope posting this is fine. Happy to answer questions; I also have a brand new ntfy community, feel free to join)

  • @sporifEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Why can’t it override DND? In the notifications settings you set that for each type of message.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Wrong choice of words. What I meant was that you cannot have your alert ring consistently AFAIK. ntfy has an option to play the alert forever until you ACK it, which is very useful when you’re sleeping or in a loud environment.

      Maybe Gotify can do that too; though I was under the impression that it cannot. I’ve never used it so I don’t know. 🙃