Show HN: DownForReal – Kuma Hosted from 3 regions
I use Kuma for a few microservices I’ve built. It’s a simple open source tool for monitoring APIs, ports, websites etc if they are down. The issue I get is that they are hosted on your own infrastructure, so it doesn’t do you a whole lot of good if your site is down and it takes your Kuma down with it. This also leads to a bunch of false notifications which are annoying. From what I can tell, people in the GitHub comments are looking for hosted Kuma. I built DownForReal (largely with LLMs) but w
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2026-11-15 04:11:00.027Z
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Source account: I use Kuma for a few microservices I’ve built. It’s a simple open source tool for monitoring APIs, ports, websites etc if they are down. The issue I get is that they are hosted on your own infrastructure, so it doesn’t do you a whole lot of good if your site is down and it takes your Kuma down with it. This also leads to a bunch of false notifications which are annoying. From what I can tell, people in the GitHub comments are looking for hosted Kuma. I built DownForReal (largely with LLMs) but w
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