Paul’s Programming Notes · Jul 5, 2026
A dead man’s switch for a single-host monitoring stack
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If Prometheus and Alertmanager run on one box, nothing alerts when that box dies. A `vector(1)` watchdog routed off-host turns silence into the failure signal.
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