☁️ Starbuck Services — Cloud Monitoring

Host: Cloud – Starbuck VPS · Compose: Cloud/Starbuck/services/compose.yaml
Stack name: services

1. Overview

Cloud-side monitoring and notification services running on the Starbuck VPS. Provides an independent Gatus health monitor (for checking homelab services from outside), Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring), and Apprise API (notification relay).

2. Architecture & Services

Service	Image	Port	Role
`apprise-api`	`linuxserver/apprise-api:1.5.0`	`8000`	Notification relay API (Slack, Discord, email, etc.)
`service_gatus`	`twinproduction/gatus:v5.36.0`	`8081`	External health monitoring dashboard
`service_postgres`	`postgres:16`	`5432`	Gatus database
`uptime-kuma`	`louislam/uptime-kuma:2.4.0`	`3001`	Uptime monitor with alerting

3. Networking

web — Internal bridge network for all services.
cloudflare-net — External; routes services through Dockflare tunnel.

4. Persistent Storage

Container	Host Path	Description
`apprise-api`	`/home/michael/data/apprise-api/config`	Notification config
`service_gatus`	`/home/michael/data/servicemonitoring/gatus`	Gatus config YAML
`service_postgres`	`/home/michael/data/servicemonitoring/db`	Gatus database
`uptime-kuma`	`/home/michael/data/servicemonitoring/uptime/data`	Uptime Kuma database

5. Environment Variables

Variable	Service	Description
`POSTGRES_USER` / `POSTGRES_PASSWORD` / `POSTGRES_DB`	`service_postgres`	`gatus` / `gatus` / `gatus`
`PUID` / `PGID` / `TZ`	`apprise-api`	`1000:1000`, `Australia/Sydney`

6. Access & Usage

URL	Description
`https://gatus.m1ckyb.com`	Gatus dashboard (external health check)
`https://uptime.m1ckyb.com`	Uptime Kuma
`https://apprise.m1ckyb.com`	Apprise API

docker compose -f Cloud/Starbuck/services/compose.yaml up -d

7. Maintenance & Backup

docker compose -f Cloud/Starbuck/services/compose.yaml pull
docker compose -f Cloud/Starbuck/services/compose.yaml up -d

rsync -av /home/michael/data/servicemonitoring/ /backup/starbuck-services/
rsync -av /home/michael/data/apprise-api/ /backup/apprise/