How to Configure the Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

Description

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 Follow @HouseofLogicBlog or visit https://www.houseoflogic.co.uk for more tutorials and articles.