Free Server Monitoring Checklist 2025

Stop paying for features you do not use. This checklist shows exactly how to wire up free server and infrastructure monitoring with Exit1.dev and a few pragmatic integrations.

1. Map Critical Services First

You cannot monitor what you never list. Start with the workloads that make money or keep customers from churning. Inventory:

• Public API endpoints, health checks, cron jobs.
• Internal services that trigger cascading failures when they fall over.
• Certificate renewal workflows and DNS records.

Tag everything with the same names you use inside Free Uptime Monitor for SaaS to keep the story straight between website monitoring and infrastructure.

2. Wire Infrastructure Heartbeats into Exit1.dev

Exit1.dev accepts simple HTTP checks, webhooks, and custom payloads. Instrument every server:

• Use the built-in cron monitor to ensure background workers fire on time.
• Expose a /healthz endpoint on each service and let Exit1.dev hit it every minute.
• Ship structured logs through the Exit1 Logs to Warehouse guide so your team sees anomalies fast.

3. Add Real Alerts Where People Respond

Email is a dead end. Route alerts to the rooms that trigger action:

• Slack for the daily response loop using the Slack integration playbook.
• PagerDuty or Opsgenie through webhooks for true after-hours escalation.
• Discord for community or open-source projects that live there.

Set alert fatigue boundaries. Infrastructure monitoring is worthless if everyone mutes the channel.

4. Track Infrastructure SLAs Automatically

Business stakeholders care about reliability trends, not excuses. Turn your uptime data into SLA dashboards:

• Reuse the Free SLA monitoring guide to translate availability into promises.
• Generate monthly reports straight from Exit1.dev so finance and sales see proof, not hopes.
• Export to CSV and attach context from post-incident reviews.

5. Close the Loop with Incident Reviews

Every failure should improve the checklist. Run postmortems and push the learnings into automation:

• Capture root causes inside Exit1.dev incident timelines.
• Update monitors any time infrastructure changes.
• Build a library of fix-once runbooks inspired by the Incident Postmortem templates.

The Result: Infrastructure Monitoring That Holds Up

This free checklist gives you actual server visibility without signing a single enterprise contract. The only "secret" is staying disciplined and ruthless about signal-to-noise. Exit1.dev does the heavy lifting; you just need the courage to cut the fluff.