Would like an alert if Plex is offline

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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I have Plex Media Server running on a Windows box. Everything has been running great 98% of the time. There was a rare incident reported by a couple friends who said this past weekend they couldn't see my Plex. I didn't have any ISP outage. In fact, during those times I was on Netflix, playing online games, watching Plex content internally. What I'm looking for is if there is a way to get some kind of notification that Plex is disconnected from port 32400 mapping? This is the only thing I can think of that would make an external Plex client (Android app or Roku) suddenly not see my server. I installed Spiceworks and I don't see anything through something like that which can zero in on knowing if Plex wasn't working to the outside world

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There are a few ways to tell if Plex is running, but how do you want to know.  Who, how and when do you want to be notified?

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It would be great if I got an email telling me that Plex was disconnected from outside access. like if it's been offline for 5 or 10 minutes. anything proactive would be great. 

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Is uptimerobot.com an option ?

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I monitor Plex with two different services: 

Monitis - Tells me amongst other things if http://myip:32400 is unresponsive, and tell's if the PMS process or the Transcoder are using unusual amounts of resources, or if they're not running for an X period of time.
PulseWay - Hardware monitors all my servers as well as certain processes. If PlexMediaServer.exe crashes for some reason I get an instant notification to my mobile devices.

With Monitis I can add whoever I want to get notifications about downtime/errors. 

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Montis looks to only be free for 15 days --> anyone know of a free service that we can install / use to do this function?

Preferably web based, as if my Internet connection is down i wouldn't get any notification if the server is offline if running it locally only. 

Thanks

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uptimerobot.com looks like it's a pretty viable option. going to give that a try

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just wanted to say that uptimerobot.com works perfectly for what i was wanting. tested it by turning off the forwarded port on my firewall and sure enough, got a text after a few minutes that Plex was down. thanks all for the replies

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How did you get up time robot.com to work with your Plex. If I link mine to my external ip with the Plex port I get unauthorized 401 error

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How did you get up time robot.com to work with your Plex. If I link mine to my external ip with the Plex port I get unauthorized 401 error

Your settings in uptime robot should look like this:

http://externalipaddress:32400/web/index.html

Then in your router, make sure that you have port forwarding selected for the internal IP of the computer that hosts plex and for the port it is 32400

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Thanks! @BigJ76

This worked for me.

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