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Configuring Prometheus For Blackbox Exporter curl The blackbox exporter is started collecting the metrics and we can confirm that the service is working well. To verify the installation, We are going to scrape the details collected by the blackbox exporter service. We can check the same by running the below command. We can see that the service is UP and running.īy default, blackbox exporter will be listening on the port 9115. To check the status of the blackbox exporter service, Run the below command. systemctl start blackbox_exporterĮnable it to start on system restart / boot. Lets start the blackbox exporter service using the below command. ĮxecStart=/usr/local/bin/blackbox_exporter -config.file /etc/blackbox_exporter/blackbox.yml Now Its time to setup systemd unit file for blackbox exporter service.Ĭreate a file blackbox_rvice and add the below contents. Remove the existing configuration of blackbox.yml file and add the below configuration. sudo chown -R blackbox_exporter: /etc/blackbox_exporterīy default, The blackbox.yml configuration file will be coming with multiple probers (http, tcp, icmp) enabled.Īs our intent in this blog is to setup health check monitoring for http endpoints. The ownership of the blackbox folder should be changed as follows.

sudo mkdir /etc/blackbox_exporterĪnd copy the blackbox.yml from the downloaded location to /etc/blackbox_exporter sudo cp blackbox.yml /etc/blackbox_exporter/ Next, We need to setup folder for the blackbox exporter configuration files. sudo chown blackbox_exporter: /usr/local/bin/blackbox_exporter sudo cp blackbox_exporter /usr/local/bin/Īlso we should change the ownership of the blackbox exporter executables. Lets copy the binary file (blackbox_exporter) to the local user account. The binary file will be used to start the blackbox exporter service using the systemd unit file.We will configure it in the next step.īlackbox.yml, this is the file where we will configure the modules and probers. We can find the binary (executable file) and the configuration file of the blackbox exporter. wget Īfter the package is downloaded to the server, We need to extract it.Įxtract the blackbox_exporter package using the below command.

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We will use wget to download the package directly to the server.

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I will be downloading latest binaries for the Linux operating system.ĭownload the archive to the target server where the blackbox_exporter should be configured. ĭepending on the Operating system we use, The package can be downloaded.

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The configuration file consists of lists of modules.Each module is the probing configuration in the blackbox exporter.Īs we are going to check the Status code of the HTTP endpoint, We are going to use the HTTP proberįirst We need to download the latest version of blackbox_exporter from the official respository. The configuration file of the blackbox exporter is configured in YAML format. Using the above command we have created blackbox_exporter user. We will create a user account blackbox_exporter , We will run the blackbox exporter service using this user for the security concerns.Īlso the files and folder of the blackbox exporter service should be owned by blackbox_exporter sudo useradd -no-create-home -shell /bin/false blackbox_exporter With the help of blackbox exporter we can scrape the details of all the endpoints on the target instances with the details such as response time, Status code, SSL certificate expiry, DNS lookup latencies. What Is Blackbox Exporter?īlackbox exporter is a ( probing exporter) tool to monitor HTTP, DNS, TCP and ICMP endpoints. Once you have the Prometheus setup in place, Lets go ahead and setup blackbox exporter on the target servers where we are running http endpoints. Setup Monitoring & Alerting using Prometheus & Grafana.Monitoring Linux nodes using Prometheus & Node Exporter.

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How to Install and Configure Prometheus.In my previous posts, I have explained on, In this blog post, We will see how to monitor the health of the HTTP endpoints with the help of Prometheus and Blackbox exporter.Īnd also how we can use grafana to alert in case of HTTP endpoints failure status codes.