Replacing Uptime Kuma with Monit

I want to start by saying that Uptime Kuma is quite fantastic. If you're looking for a replacement for Uptime Robot, it's pretty much there in terms of feature parity. Setup is pretty trivial if you're using Docker. If you're like me, and prefer to not deploy Docker containers to your servers, there's a few options. You can follow these unofficial fan-built setup instructions, but you'll realize really quick that you're just manually setting up a Node.js app with pm2 and all that. A little bit of research led me to a Debian package for Uptime Kuma. While I'd much rather install packages from the official Debian repos, it did work well enough. After installation and a small bit of setup, I had a nice little uptime monitor for my personal projects. Fast forward a few weeks, things were working well, but I still had some nagging thoughts in the back of my head. Unofficial repos have a higher chance of vanishing in the night Also runs a high risk of the maintainer losing interest and…