Hey r/selfhosted,
Been running a small homelab for a while and kept finding out services were down only after family members complained. So I built OpsHome NOC — a native iOS monitoring app designed for homelab and personal servers.
How it works:
Active probing from a cloud server checks your services as an outside observer would — then sends push notifications (APNs) directly to your iPhone when something goes down or recovers.
Free tier — 15 monitors:
• HTTP / HTTPS — reachability + status codes (200, 400–505)
• TCP — port connectivity
• ICMP — ping / host reachability
• SSL — certificate expiry tracking (alerts at 30 & 7 days)
Pro — 80 monitors/additional protocols:
• UDP — port detection
• DNS — A record & MX record resolution
• Domain — expiry tracking before it lapses
Other features:
• Smart plain-language analysis — not just "it's down", suggests what to check next
• 12-hour trend dashboard with online/offline history
• Sign in with Apple, Keychain secure storage
• No account setup, no credit card required to start
To be upfront — this is intentionally lightweight. Not trying to replace Uptime Kuma or Grafana. If you're already running a self-hosted monitoring stack, this probably isn't for you. But if you just want a clean native iOS app that pings you the moment your Pi, NAS, or personal site goes down, this might be worth a look.
Happy to answer any questions. App Store link in comments.
