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Alert: UptimeRobot external monitor

Symptom

UptimeRobot detected a LastVet public endpoint as DOWN from outside R940. Email and Slack use UptimeRobot's native format (not Alertmanager).

Immediate action

  1. Note which monitor fired (prod API vs staging) from the UptimeRobot alert subject/body.
  2. Check whether internal Alertmanager also fired (R940 partial outage vs total outage).
# From any host with LAN/Tailscale access
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' https://api.last.vet/health
curl -sS https://api.last.vet/health
ssh lastvet-edge 'systemctl status caddy --no-pager'
ssh lastvet-api 'systemctl status lastvet-api-prod lastvet-api-staging --no-pager'

Diagnosis

Pattern Likely cause
UptimeRobot DOWN, internal alerts firing Service failure inside R940 (API, Caddy, DB)
UptimeRobot DOWN, no internal alerts R940 total outage, Cox WAN, DNS, or Cloudflare edge issue
UptimeRobot only on staging Staging-specific deploy or config
False positive after Caddy reload Wait for UptimeRobot UP recovery; tune threshold if repeated

Also check:

  • Cox modem / WAN at home site
  • Cloudflare DNS and proxy status for api.last.vet
  • Proxmox host power (pve-r940)

Escalation

Ryan immediately if prod API monitor is DOWN and veterans are active on the platform.

UptimeRobot dashboard

https://dashboard.uptimerobot.com/monitors

Resolution history

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