davidwinter / pi-pinger

Send heartbeat pings to 3rd parties to get notified if your pi goes down

pi-pinger

Send heartbeat pings to 3rd parties to get notified if your pi goes down

Having a home lab Raspberry Pi is great! Though it sucks if it goes down and you don't find out about it until you're left wondering why you can't access something or your Pi-Hole connection stops working.

pi-pinger lets you setup external monitoring services for "push" tests. Every minute, the pi-pinger will notify the configured test URLs so that they know your Raspberry Pi is still up and running, and notify you if it ever goes down where the tests haven't been sent.

Usage

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidwinter/pi-pinger/main/compose.prod.yml -o compose.yml

Edit the ping URLs value in compose.yml with one or more URLs you wish to use. I would recommend any or all of the below, which offer a free plan with at least one free monitor that you can set as a Push test alert:

• 🍰 Status Cake
• 🕵️ Dead Man's Snitch
• 📈 Cronitor

Then run:

docker compose up -d

So long as your Docker install is enabled to start at boot time, then pi-pinger will launch with reboots automatically.