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Monitoring deployments are hard to manage as code

Monitoring operators want their configuration and state to fit into reproducible deployment workflows. The requests span storing Uptime Kuma data outside a local SQLite file, loading monitor definitions from a config file, and provisioning a Datadog Elastic Cloud integration through Terraform instead of configuring it manually. These requests are related, but they come from different tools and may need separate integrations; the evidence is also several years old, so current support should be checked.

For self-hosted monitoring operators and infrastructure-as-code teams. Mentioned from Nov 2021 to May 2023 on GitHub.

4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.

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  1. I would rather store my data on my existing database server because I have backup routines, etc, which will protect the data. I like to keep the dat a spearate from the app so I can just reinstall the app, point it at the correct database
    tomlawesome on GitHub (louislam/uptime-kuma)Nov 2021+184 upvotesAsked for a tool
  2. I added primarily MySQL support because I wanted to deploy kuma to Google Cloud Run (docker on google cloud), which does not support writing to local files. Additionally I prefer having data stored in a traditional database, as having it in a SQLite file insde a continer seems like a black box to me
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