Export blackbox telemetry like availability, request latencies and request size for remote services.

The exporter requests the given url and reads from it until EOF.

The exporter connects to the given host:port. If any path is given, it will try to read until EOF which is required for exposing the size.

Execute ping. Port and path are ignored.

• blackbox_up{url} 1 if url is reachable, 0 if not
• blackbox_latency_seconds{url} Latency of request for url

• blackbox_size_bytes{url} Total size of response for url
• blackbox_cert_expire_timestamp{url} Expiry date of certificate (HTTPS only)
• blackbox_response_code{url} Status code for the URL

• blackbox_size_bytes{url} Size of the response

./blackbox_prober \
  -u http://5pi.de \
  -u https://5pi.de \
  -u icmp://192.168.178.1 \
  -u tcp://freigeist.org:655

docker pull jswank/blackbox_prober

docker run -d -p 9110:9110 jswank/blackbox_prober \
    -u http://5pi.de \
    -u https://5pi.de \
    -u icmp://192.168.178.1 \
    -u tcp://freigeist.org:655