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: 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! Crosstalk Discord: Follow me on: - TikTok: @crosstalksolutions - LinkedIn: - Bluesky: - Mastodon: @chris@ - Facebook: - Instagram: Crosstalk Solutions - RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS: Crosstalk Solutions offers best practice phone systems and network/wireless infrastructure design/deployment. Visit for more info!