Quickstart for Peekaping

Peekaping monitors websites, APIs and other services and alerts you when something goes down, with a real-time dashboard showing live status and response-time history for each monitor. Its API-first architecture means every function is reachable through a REST API, making it easy to automate monitor setup from CI/CD or infrastructure-as-code tooling. The Go backend is built for low CPU and memory use, and the system supports SQLite, PostgreSQL or MongoDB as its storage backend depending on how it's deployed. This template deploys it with a Postgres backend and bundles a pgAdmin console for direct database access alongside the monitoring UI. The project is explicitly in beta, so upstream recommends testing before relying on it in production.

Deploy Peekaping on Elestio

1. Open the Peekaping deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run Peekaping properly (at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. Peekaping is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access Peekaping

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your Peekaping instance.

If the password field is blank, Peekaping does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to Peekaping (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the Peekaping version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn Peekaping: read the official Peekaping documentation.