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NodePing has powerful monitoring for web app, APIs, and websockets. Checks for SSL and domain expiry as well.
A ton of different types of checks. A lot of value for not a lot of money. The public status page style is minimalastic but exactly what I want.
Example: https://status.regexplanet.com/
SSL certificate expiry is easily checked with a nagios check (use the -C flag on check_http). If you use Letsencrypt with a client like acmetool (https://github.com/hlandau/acme) your certs will never expire. Of course the nagios check is still necessary to ensure acmetool keeps doing its job!
Domain name expiry checking could also be a nagios job, or alternatively you could write a small script that checks whois output and execute it regularly with cron.
Configuring your registrar for auto-renewal helps avoid a certain class of errors ("I forgot to renew!") but not others ("my credit card expired and the e-mail notifications from my registrar didn't reach me").
UptimeRobot is quick to setup and have a lot of options, including a white label portal [0] to monitor status it's reliable and cheap ($54/year) I'm not affiliated with them, just an happy customer [0] E.g. status page: https://status.appdrag.com/
uptimerobot.com Use automatic let's encrypt certs and forget about it
I have no affiliation with any of these companies. I use StatusCake for basic uptime monitoring for websites. I switched to them from Pingdom because they are cheaper. Only downsides I've had with StatusCake is if something is down it doesn't give you the cause. Pingdom would show you the trace route. That has made it hard to tell and I would get quite a few false positives saying sites were down. I haven't had false…
I have Telegraf running on all my machines that pipes data to an InfluxDB for storage and then Grafana for visualizations. Gives me all sorts of useful information that I use to make decisions.
It can also alert if the SSL cert is within X days of expiring.
https://www.poweradmin.com/help/pa-server-monitor-7-1/monito...