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Upright
Synthetic monitoring engine with Playwright and Prometheus metrics
Description
Upright is a self-hosted synthetic monitoring system. It provides a framework for running health check probes from multiple geographic sites and reporting metrics via Prometheus. Alerts can then be configured with AlertManager.
Site overview with world map | 30-day uptime history
Probe status across all sites
Features
- Playwright Probes - Browser-based probes for user flows with video recording and logs
- HTTP Probes - Simple HTTP health checks with configurable expected status codes
- SMTP Probes - EHLO handshake verification for mail servers
- Traceroute Probes - Network path analysis with hop-by-hop latency tracking
- Multi-Site Support - Run probes from multiple geographic locations with staggered scheduling
- Observability - OTLP compatible, Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, and AlertManager support
- Configurable Authentication - OmniAuth integration with support for any OIDC provider
Not Included
- Notifications - Instead, Alertmanager is included for alerting and notifications
- Hosting - Instead, you can use a VPS from DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.
Components
- Rails engine
- SQLite
- Solid Queue for background and recurring jobs
- Mission Control - Jobs to monitor Solid Queue and manually enqueue probes
- Kamal for deployments
- Prometheus metrics for uptime queries and alerting
- AlertManager for notifications
- Open Telemetry Collector - logs, metrics and traces can be shipped to any OTLP compatible endpoint
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