What are my options for getting alerts on my android phone if services on my VPS becoming unresponsive?
My first thought is a simple app that periodically pings domains and gives a notification if any fail. Is there an open source app for that?
Or something else?


There’s a lot of options. There’s countless paid services that offer exactly that.
If you wanna build something yourself for free, you could probably set up a site accessible via HTTP on your server and create a script on your phone that pings it every 30 seconds or so. Afaik, termux has a termux-notification function that lets you send a notification.
Codewise, it would look somewhere like this I think:
#!/usr/bin/env bash # Config NOTIFY_TITLE="Server Alert" NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Server returned a non‑200 status." HOST="funnysite.com" PORT=8080 PATH="/healtcheck" URL="http://${HOST}:${PORT}${PATH}" # Config HTTP_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "$URL") if [[ "$HTTP_CODE" != "200" ]]; then termux-notification -t "$NOTIFY_TITLE" -c "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE $HOST:$PORT" fi exit 0Afaik, termux doesn’t ship the cron daemon, but you can install cronie or use an external task scheduler. There, just set to run the script every 60 seconds or so. Whatever you need.
I haven’t tested anything of this, but in my head, it sounds like it should work fine.