blackbox_exporter

Blackbox exporter

The blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and ICMP.

Building and running

Local Build

make
./blackbox_exporter <flags>

Visiting http://localhost:9115/probe?target=google.com&module=http_2xx will return metrics for a HTTP probe against google.com.

Building with Docker

docker build -t blackbox_exporter .
docker run -d -p 9115:9115 --name blackbox_exporter -v `pwd`:/config blackbox_exporter -config.file=/config/blackbox.yml

Configuration

A configuration showing all options is below:

modules:
  http_2xx:
    prober: http
    timeout: 5s
    http:
      valid_status_codes: []  # Defaults to 2xx
      method: GET
      no_follow_redirects: false
      fail_if_ssl: false
      fail_if_not_ssl: false
      fail_if_matches_regexp:
      - "Could not connect to database"
      fail_if_not_matches_regexp:
      - "Download the latest version here"
  tcp_connect:
    prober: tcp
    timeout: 5s
  ssh_banner:
    prober: tcp
    timeout: 5s
    tcp:
      query_response:
      - expect: "^SSH-2.0-"
  irc_banner:
    prober: tcp
    timeout: 5s
    tcp:
      query_response:
      - send: "NICK prober"
      - send: "USER prober prober prober :prober"
      - expect: "PING :([^ ]+)"
        send: "PONG ${1}"
      - expect: "^:[^ ]+ 001"
  icmp:
    prober: icmp
    timeout: 5s

HTTP, HTTPS (via the http prober), TCP socket and ICMP (v4 only, requires privileged access) are currently supported. Additional modules can be defined to meet your needs.

Prometheus Configuration

The blackbox exporter needs to be passed the target as a parameter, this can be done with relabelling.

Example config:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'blackbox'
    metrics_path: /probe
    params:
      module: [http_2xx]  # Look for a HTTP 200 response.
    target_groups:
      - targets:
        - prometheus.io   # Target to probe
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        regex: (.*)(:80)?
        target_label: __param_target
        replacement: ${1}
      - source_labels: [__param_target]
        regex: (.*)
        target_label: instance
        replacement: ${1}
      - source_labels: []
        regex: .*
        target_label: __address__
        replacement: 127.0.0.1:9115  # Blackbox exporter.