alertR is an unified client/server based alerting system. Originally it was developed as an open source home security system, but soon it became apparent that it can be used in a great variety of scenarios where an alerting system is needed, for example as a simpler nagios to monitor the availability of a server/service.

Here a list of interesting usecases with alertR:

• Introducing alertR: Open-Source alerting system (with video)
• alertR: dbus and xbmc notification client (with video)
• alertR: rule engine (with video)

Here a list of useful documentations to start with/understand this project:

• The infrastructure of alertR

To install an alertR client or the alertR server, please use the installation script. A detailed description of how to install an alertR instance is given in the Installation section of the wiki.

If you have already a working alertR system installed and a newer version is available, use the update script to update your alertR instances. A detailed description of how to update an alertR instance is given in the Update section of the wiki.

For questions, bugs and discussion please use the github issues.