Monitor Your Homelab with Uptime Kuma — Part 1: Install & First Monitors

Step-by-step guide with full written walkthrough

If you're running a homelab with more than a handful of services, you've probably had that moment where something has been down for hours and you only find out when you try to use it. Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that fixes that — it watches your services and tells you when something breaks. In this guide we install it on a Proxmox LXC, set up five different monitor types (Ping, HTTP, Keyword, TCP, and DNS), and then intentionally break things to see exactly which monitor catches which type of failure. By the end you'll know which monitor to use for every service in your homelab.

Full written tutorial with screenshots and commands: https://www.localhake.com/content/uptime-kuma-install-first-monitors