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Blackbox prober exporter

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2016-10-25 · latest 2026-04-13

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  1. …websites (and also other stuff) is pretty much the use case for prometheus' black-box exporter ( https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter ). assuming you work at a decent company and already have a decent monitoring system…
    comment by znpy · 2026-04-13 · in Computer science enrollment data suddenly shows a big drop
  2. …<string> | default = "ip6" ] [ ip_protocol_fallback: <boolean> | default = true ] https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/... So you need 2 modules, one for each ip version. As for automating setting these up, we deploy
    comment by jarofgreen · 2024-03-27 · in How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus
  3. This is all built in very nicely to https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter - Though they could use a blazing red link to an example rules file.
    comment by GauntletWizard · 2023-01-05 · in I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
  4. Or with Prometheus: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter https endpoints will include the probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry metric, which is the expiration in UNIX epoch seconds. Use with the builtin time() function.
    comment by retzkek · 2022-02-08 · in Show HN: Never have an SSL certificate expire again
  5. Isn't that similar to using https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter with prometheus, alertmanager and grafana?
    comment by oauea · 2020-09-03 · in Show HN: Automated Health Dashboard
  6. …me of the Prometheus Blackbox exporter. I think you can achieve similar acceptance tests. See https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
    comment by tomaaron · 2020-09-03 · in Show HN: Automated Health Dashboard
  7. …of active checks. Maybe for checking the ssl cert expiry date you can use the blackbox exporter. https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
    comment by ftonobo · 2018-10-24 · in Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
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    Latency.at is shutting down
    story by bala529 · 2018-05-24 · 0 comments
  9. We're currently investigating two solutions: 1) https://github.com/arachnys/cabot 2) Prometheus with https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter Keen to hear what others are using
    comment by mortar · 2016-10-25 · in How the Friday DDoS Attack Affected Pingdom