Strategies to receive automatic reports: sending reports by email versus Hooks or other alternatives?

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Hello everyone.
I plan to install restic on a client’s computer to test how it works.

So far I know how to install restic and send the report by email. If the backup is daily I would receive an email per day with the description of the backup.

I have read that other users prefer to only receive an alert via Hooks only when the backup does not run for a certain amount of time.

I also tried services like https://ifttt.com/ to receive an email when a snapshot is added to a Google Drive folder, but in this case I don’t receive the backup details.

What strategies do you use or recommend?

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I like Healthchecks.io.

It’ll let you know when something is wrong and if you include your backup’s log with your ping you can use its dashboard to keep an eye on things:

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Thanks @dsissitka
I will take a look at the second link!