How to Configure the Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

How to monitor applications using the Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

This video shows how to add the Prometheus Blackbox Exporter to an existing Prometheus and Grafana environment, and how to add the metrics to a Grafana Dashboard.

The black box exporter allows the user to probe http / https and TCP ports for responses and to track these using Prometheus.

The initial Prometheus and Grafana setup is not covered, see: https://youtu.be/fnoTHoZzNSc

00:00 Intro
00:26 Existing Environment
00:55 Setting up blackbox exporter
02:27 Testing probes using the blackbox exporter
03:15 Configuring Prometheus to use the blackbox exporter
05:10 Troubleshooting Prometheus
07:38 Adding Blackbox metrics to Grafana
08:56 Outro
Useful Links:

Repo of setup commands and example config files - https://github.com/HouseOfLogicGH/GrafanaPrometheusPingMonitoring/tree/main/blackbox

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter
https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

Installing Prometheus using Docker https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/installation/#using-docker

Installing Grafana using Docker https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/docker/#run-grafana-docker-image

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