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Monitor Nginx Proxy Manager with DumbMonit

The proxy manager: hosts nginx refused to load, disabled hosts, and the certificates the hosts present, before Let's Encrypt renewal failures turn into expired sites.

DocumentationOfficial website: Nginx Proxy Manager

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What DumbMonit watches

The proxy manager: hosts whose configuration nginx refused, disabled hosts, and the certificates the hosts present, before a Let's Encrypt renewal failure turns into an expired site.

Typical use. Proxy manager: hosts nginx refused, disabled hosts, certificates served

Examples

  • Nginx Proxy Manager in Docker
  • NPM in front of self-hosted apps

How it connects

What you need

  • User email and passwordA user of its own, allowed to view the hosts and nothing else.

Network ports to open

  • 81/TCPAdmin API (HTTP, default)
  • 443/TCPOnly with the certificate check (HTTPS port of the hosts, default)
Setup steps: Create a view-only Nginx Proxy Manager user
  1. In Nginx Proxy Manager, open Users → Add User, give it an email of its own such as [email protected], and leave every role unticked.

  2. From that user's menu, open Permissions and set the levels listed below.

  3. From the same menu, choose Change Password and set a password.

  4. In DumbMonit, enter the Nginx Proxy Manager host with its web port, for example npm.lan:81, and that email and password.

Heads-up. Leave SSL Certificates on Hidden: Nginx Proxy Manager hands private keys to any user allowed to view them.