ntfy as a ready app

First steps

1. 1

   Keep the admin password

   Under First login on the Overview you show the password of the admin account exactly once.

2. 2

   An account for your scripts

   Under App settings, Add account makes an account of its own, such as monitoring, and you give it a right on a topic such as alerts. You see its password once.

3. 3

   Send

   One call is enough; your address is on the overview:

curl -u monitoring:<password> -d "Backup done" https://ntfy-….goodflare.me/alerts

Connect the ntfy app

In the ntfy app for Android or iOS, add a server of your own with your address in the settings and sign in with an account. Then subscribe to a topic that account may read. In a browser, open the address directly.

Accounts and rights

Nobody may read or send without signing in. Every account needs a right on a topic: Read and send, Read only, Send only or No access. A topic may be a pattern: alerts* covers alerts, alerts-web and so on. The admin account may do everything and cannot be removed here.

Updates and backups

We keep ntfy up to date, with a safety copy before every update and a check after it. ntfy keeps messages for twelve hours for devices that are not connected; attachments up to 15 MB for three hours. A backup of the accounts and rights is made every night.

Good to know

• You are responsible for the messages that pass through your server; our terms apply here too.
• ntfy is open source (Apache-2.0).