Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down

Re:Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goe... by RandomUser4976 on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:14PM (#43755413)

My young child has Type 1 diabetes. I need to know when the server that receives glucose readings from his CGM on his body goes down. It’s a huge help to prevent emergencies and death when I know when his blood glucose is low AND when there’s no new blood glucose readings. I’m going to try this service. Thank you for sharing!

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Re:Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goe... by SantiagoVargas on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:56PM (#43755792)

Thank you for your comment! Wow - That sounds like a very important use case. Please feel free to reach out to me if you encounter anything while getting set up [email protected]; I'll double check once you sign up that everything is configured correctly (any unauthenticated endpoint that retuns a 200 response will work, best is /health).

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Re:Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goe... by RandomUser4976 on Monday April 21, 2025 @06:33PM (#43757245)

That’s very kind of you. Really appreciate it. Cheers!

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Re:Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goe... by pyfon on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:40PM (#43758338)

It is crazy you need a seperate service for this :(. Why doesn't the original service treat no data as an alert as well as have a 99.999 slo?

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Re:Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goe... by replwoacause on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @11:30PM (#43768393)

This seems like too important a job to entrust to this upstart service. What would happen if this fails to alert you?

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