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Android. Subscribed. I have some servers that self monitor their mail queue with a simple bash watchdog script. Unfortunately the only notification method I have is... email. This will be a great way to get notifications for the servers. I can see some basic bash stuff coming that'll help me out without having to go full-out nagios for 4 small web server VPSs.

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For self-monitored systems that "chug along" in the background it's also nice to have a Dead Man's Switch style monitoring: set up the bash watchdog to send regular "I'm still alive" messages to an external service. The external service then notifies you whenever these heartbeat messages stop (bash script crashes, system runs out of disk or RAM, system loses network connection, VM gets accidentally terminated, etc. etc.).

There's a number of monitoring services implementing this idea, and I'm also building one of them as an open source project – link in profile.

Thanks for the interest XP Android will come!

I tried to make Notify17 as usable as possible with the fewer amount of setup, so bash is a thing :)

I'll let you know when Android is out!

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