Use Blackbox Exporter for HTTP Status Checks using Prometheus and Grafana

AWS | Azure | Endpoint Check | Kubernetes

βš— Kevin Summersill πŸ”‹

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In this article, we will be utilizing the Blackbox Exporter within Prometheus to obtain HTTP status updates of endpoints. This article does assume that you have an installed version of Prometheus, a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster, as well as Grafana already instead.

What is Blackbox Exporter?

The Blackbox Exporter is a tool that we can utilize to probe (aka test) the status of…

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βš— Kevin Summersill πŸ”‹

Enterprise Solution Architect | Certified K8s Administrator/Developer βš“ | SAFe SPC | Cert Terraform | AWS Solutions Architect | Dev*Ops/GitOps Engineer πŸ”₯