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Peekaping on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Observability

Peekaping, an open source self hosted uptime monitoring system that watches your websites, APIs and services, records heartbeat history and uptime statistics, and publishes status pages.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Peekaping is a free, open source uptime and status monitoring system built with a Go API and a modern React interface. It checks websites, APIs, TCP ports, DNS records, containers and databases on a schedule you choose, records a heartbeat history for every check, calculates uptime over 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and a year, and charts response time so you can see a service degrading before it fails. Public status pages let your users check service health for themselves, and notification channels raise alerts the moment a check goes down. It supports many monitor types beyond plain HTTP, including keyword and JSON query checks, ICMP ping, DNS, push monitors for external jobs, Docker containers, gRPC, SNMP, and direct checks against MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB and Redis, as well as MQTT, RabbitMQ and Kafka. It suits any team that wants its own monitoring, owned and hosted in its own cloud account rather than paid for per check on a hosted service.

Why the cloudimg image

The cloudimg image runs Peekaping with a bundled PostgreSQL and Redis under one systemd managed stack, every container pinned by image digest rather than a floating tag. A unique administrator password, database password and cache password are generated on the first boot of every VM, and Peekaping mints fresh session signing keys into a brand new database, so no secret is ever shared between instances. Self registration is closed on first boot and the image verifies it, so nobody can claim the administrator account on your instance. Only SSH and the web interface listen on the network: the API and web interface are bound to the loopback interface behind nginx, and the database and cache are never published to a host port. Ships fully patched with a paired deployment guide and 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • Monitor websites, APIs and TCP services and get alerted the moment one goes down
  • Publish a public status page so users can check service health themselves
  • Track uptime and response time trends across your own infrastructure

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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