Home Lab Monitoring Made Easy: Uptime Kuma Tutorial

Crosstalk Solutions September 16, 2025
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Uptime Kuma is a free and open source monitoring tool for your critical servers and services - and it's super easy to install! In this video, we'll go step-by-step through an installation of Uptime Kuma using Docker on Digital Ocean, and we'll secure our sever down with Caddy reverse proxy and a few firewall rules. This guide will get your monitoring system running in just 15 minutes, and I've included a full blog post with easy copy/paste commands. Uptime Kuma step-by-step blog post: https://www.crosstalksolutions.com/uptime-kuma-complete-setup-guide-on-digital-ocean-with-docker/ Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Setting Up the DigitalOcean Droplet 04:45 - Docker & Reverse Proxy Configuration 09:45 - Creating Monitors & Status Pages 16:50 - Notifications & Securing with Firewall ---------------------------- Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/crosstalk Crosstalk Discord: https://discord.gg/crosstalksolutions Follow me on: - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crosstalksolutions - LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/j2Ucgg - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/crosstalk.bsky.social - Mastodon: @[email protected] - Facebook: https://fb.me/crosstalksolutions - Instagram: https://instagram.com/crosstalksolutions Crosstalk Solutions - RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS: https://crosstalksolutions.com/products Crosstalk Solutions offers best practice phone systems and network/wireless infrastructure design/deployment. Visit https://www.CrosstalkSolutions.com for more info!

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