How do you monitor your servers?

Running services, network usage, memory usage, bandwidth, disk I/O, successful logins, whether the thing is even alive, etc…
So far my only method has been “hope and pray”.

I notice something stopped working, or someone in the household notices.

Then I go fix it.

And the best time to notice that the backups weren’t working is when you need access to the backup. 😅

Backups are pretty much the only thing I get notifications for. Otherwise, one app or another on my phone will complain if it loses connection to my server.