BlogNotes on alerting, on call and the jobs nobody watches.
Guides with commands you can paste: alerts from scripts and payment events, cron and backup monitoring, and on call for small teams.
Opsgenie shutdown: options for a small team
Atlassian ends Opsgenie support on 5 April 2027. What moving to Jira Service Management keeps and loses on each plan, the other options, and a checklist for moving.
How to get alerted when a backup doesn't run
A backup that never starts raises no error. Add a heartbeat to restic, borgmatic, rsync or a systemd timer, so a missed run rings your phone the same night.
Make server alerts break through Focus on iPhone
Time Sensitive notifications pass a Focus if you allow them, and Critical Alerts also ring with the ringer off. How each works, who can send them, and how to set up your phone.
Send a push notification to your iPhone from a script
One curl request sends a push notification to your iPhone. Examples for shell scripts, long-running commands, cron, GitHub Actions, Python and Node.
Hear it the moment it happens.
One HTTP request becomes a notification with a sound on your iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac.