I think you're trying to do two things: 1. Get Prometheus to scrape blackbox_exporter on hosts 1stclient_ip and 2ndclient_ip 2. Get blackbox_exporter on those hosts to make an ICMP probe *to itself*
So you're right, you want a scrape address like http://1stclient_ip:9115/probe?module=icmp&target=1stclient_ip or you could even do http://1stclient_ip:9115/probe?module=icmp&target=127.0.0.1 Let's say you want to do the first one of those. You'll need a bit more rewriting to achieve this. Here's one way (which also keeps the 9115 out of the instance label): - job_name: 'blackbox-selftest' metrics_path: /probe params: module: [icmp] static_configs: - targets: - 1stclient_ip - 2ndclient_ip relabel_configs: - source_labels: [__address__] target_label: instance - source_labels: [__address__] target_label: __param_target - source_labels: [__address__] replacement: '${1}:9115' target_label: __address__ Personally though, I don't think this check is needed, if you are planning to use those blackbox_exporter instances to probe *other* systems. At that point, the metric 'up' will tell you whether blackbox_exporter is working or not, and you can simply alert on that, if you want to know when blackbox_exporter goes down. That is, when probing some other target: up=1, probe_success=1 => blackbox_exporter is working, target is working up=1, probe_success=0 => blackbox_exporter is working, target is down up=0 => blackbox_exporter itself is down or unreachable And if all you want to do is ping 1stclient_ip and 2ndclient_ip, and not do any probe tests from those hosts to other hosts, you could run a single instance of blackbox_exporter on the prometheus server instead. On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 08:27:30 UTC [email protected] wrote: > Hi there, hope you're doing well. > I'm fairly new to prom and having a bit of trouble with all the configs. > I installed the Blackbox exporter for testing on a Windows Client. What I > just want to do is a simple ping to the blackbox node and see in my > dashboard if the client is up or down. > > my prometheus.yml: > > [...] > - job_name: 'blackbox-icmp' > metrics_path: /probe > params: > module: [icmp] > static_configs: > - targets: > - 1stclient_ip:9115 > - 2ndclient_ip:9115 > > relabel_configs: > - source_labels: [__address__] > target_label: __param_target > - source_labels: [__param_target] > target_label: instance > > When doing this i at least get more or less the correct url, like: > http://1stclient_ip:9115/probe?module=icmp&target= 1stclient_ip %3A9115 > > but the problem with that is the modulo at the end, which is causing the > hole probe to give only 0's... so there has to be something wrong with my > relabel_config. Completly without i get the error "400 server not > reachable" and when clicking the node the html sais "target parameter is > missing" > > Can someone tell me what my fault is? > > Kind regards - Kolja > -- 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/d79ea6ab-a482-434e-8045-41fb0cfa099cn%40googlegroups.com.
