Self-Hosted Monitoring: Setting Up Uptime Kuma and Grafana So You Know Before Your Users Do

The first time most people find out a self-hosted service is down is when someone tries to use it and it isn’t there. That’s the wrong order. If you’re running more than two or three services at home - Immich, a media server, a reverse proxy, whatever - you’ve already got enough surface area for something to quietly die on a Tuesday and stay dead until you notice by accident. ...

August 20, 2026 · 7 min