I have gotten it to work. Had to make minor changes to my blackbox.yml file but it ran successfully. Thank you guys so much. The metrics are being shown in grafana as well. Really can't believe the issue was that simple.
Thanks, Sean On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 11:04 AM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you need to run blackbox_exporter separately (it will be listening on > port 9115, and prometheus/grafana agent will talk to this). > > To run the blackbox_exporter under macOS, after you've got the error > message, go to > System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > and click "Allow anyway". Then run it again. > > On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 16:57:53 UTC [email protected] wrote: > >> Well I have only ran Grafana Agent using the command line ``nohup >> ./grafana_agent --config.file=grafana_agent.yml &``. Which runs >> correctly and I can view the log output on >> >> ``less nohup.out``. I tried running nohup with the >> blackbox_exporter/blackbox.yml but it keeps giving me an error >> *“blackbox_exporter” >> cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. (*Note: I'm >> on a Mac). I did manage to find a resource where it stated the >> blackbox_exporter file needs to be copied so it can be run. >> https://shishirkh.medium.com/monitoring-stack-setup-part-4-blackbox-exporter-f7ba54d0ed99. >> Would I also need to run blackbox on its own service for me to be able to >> scrape the metrics in grafana? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sean >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:42 AM Julius Volz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sean, >>> >>> First of all, are you indeed running both the Blackbox Exporter and the >>> Grafana Agent on the same host? Also, are you running both directly on the >>> host, or in containers? If the agent is running in a container with its own >>> network namespace, it won't see the Blackbox Exporter on the same >>> "localhost", and you'll need to use the host's IP or host name (as >>> reachable from within a container) instead. >>> >>> Julius >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:30 AM Sean Coh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to test blackbox exporter with https prob. I'm fairly new to >>>> prometheus and grafana so I have been going over resources here. >>>> https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/multi-target-exporter/ >>>> >>>> Does localhost need to be changed to a specific host name? Keep getting >>>> site can't be reached. >>>> >>>> Code from grafana_agent.yml: >>>> >>>> scrape_configs: >>>> - job_name: 'blackbox' >>>> metrics_path: /probe >>>> params: >>>> module: [https_2xx] >>>> static_configs: >>>> - targets: >>>> - https://www.google.com/ >>>> relabel_configs: >>>> - source_labels: [__address__] >>>> target_label: __param_target >>>> - source_labels: [__param_target] >>>> target_label: instance >>>> - target_label: __address__ >>>> replacement: localhost:9115 >>>> >>>> >>>> Logs error: component="scrape manager" scrape_pool=blackbox target=" >>>> http://localhost:9115/probe?module=https_2xx&target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F"; >>>> msg="Scrape failed" err="Get \" >>>> http://localhost:9115/probe?module=https_2xx&target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\ >>>> <http://localhost:9115/probe?module=https_2xx&target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%5C>": >>>> dial tcp localhost:9115: connect: connection refused" >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/1fd348a1-95ad-4403-8595-10480d216b3an%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/1fd348a1-95ad-4403-8595-10480d216b3an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Julius Volz >>> PromLabs - promlabs.com >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/510a6449-8c8d-4632-842e-f7fb1da50748n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/510a6449-8c8d-4632-842e-f7fb1da50748n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAN%2Bg_7h7g3nm_GdPCLRQJn3EV14BuuarPYpduMiN%2B%3D4v9F8eDg%40mail.gmail.com.
