It monitors any server you add to it and it can install a daemon that collects metrics for when you are offline. I keep it running to monitor our servers.
I’ve also done something similar in Go too, and several people used it, mostly because it’s easy to install/use and is lightweight.
It lacks about 99% of the things that Prometheus can do, which is probably what you want for simple up/down healthy/not-healthy indication on a single box.
lol nope. i thought we all grew out of this crap?
https://www.lesinskis.com/dont-pipe-curl-into-bash.html
https://www.cyberhub.blog/article/25147-why-curl-pipe-bash-i...
oh hey lets not forget this one too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860669
It's quite nice.
"curl -sL https://... | sudo bash"
Now you won't be able to uninstall it if the repo ever goes black...