STARTING

1.On your Ubuntu, open Terminal and install Curl:

sudo apt install curl -y

2. Install Docker:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo sh

3. Verify that Docker installed:

docker –version

• you should see the docker version

4. Add privileges to the user so you dont have to use sudo command:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

5. Log out and back in so that policy is applied

6. Install Portainer:

docker run -d \
–name portainer \
–restart=always \
-p 8000:8000 \
-p 9443:9443 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v portainer_data:/data \
portainer/portainer-ce:latest

7. Verify if Portainer got installed:

docker ps

• You should see Portainer inside Docker

8. Access Portainer in browser at: https://deviceip:9443

• Replace deviceip with your own IP address

9. Create an admin account for Portainer

10. In Portainer, create a volume for Uptime Kuma:

• Go to Volumes/add volume
• Give it a name and press Create Volume

11. Install Uptime Kuma:

Go to home/local/containers/add container

• Complete the Name field
• Insert in the Image field: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
• Click on Map additional ports and insert: 3001 – 3001 tcp

• Lower in the same page, go to Advanced Container Settings
• Select the Volumes tab and insert /app/data in the container field
• In the volume field you need to select the volume you created earlier

• Select the Restart policy tab and change to Always
• Last step is to click on Deploy Container

12. Check Uptime Kuma:

• After the container is deployed, in your browser go to: http://deviceip:3001
• Change deviceip with your IP address

13. Add your own devices to Uptime Kuma:

• Click on Add New Monitor
• Change Monitor Type to Ping
• Add a Friendly Name of a device you want to monitor
• Put the device IP in the Hostname field
• Click Save and your first device is added

• At the end you will have a dashboard with devices being interrogated trough ping at a 60 seconds interval
• The software will show you if any device is DOWN or UP

Upon completion of this procedure, Uptime Kuma is fully operational and integrated into the monitoring environment.