Blackbox - Proxy

[Pete Leese]

Hi There,

I have a couple of transparent proxy servers in my environment, that sometimes are a little flaky.

I was planning on using blackbox to do some quick and dirty monitoring to validate if the proxies are operational or not.

I guess my question is, is there a probe I can create where I can force it to route out via the proxy to a website ? my view is that in theory, the check should fail if the proxy is down. or if anyone can provide me some other method of validating if a squid proxy server is online I would appreciate this as well.

cheers

pete

[Matt Doughty]

You need to set the proxy-url in your probe definition. See the documentation: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md

--Matt

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[Pete Leese]

Cheers Matt. I’ll take a look at this.

I have also taken a look at squid exporters but seem to suffer a few bugs and not quite ready for a production environment yet.

Pete

[Pete Leese]

Ok, so I have a squid proxy running on port 8080

when I do ipaddr:8080 the config fails to load

first path segment in URL cannot contain colon.

What am I doing wrong? :)

[Pete Leese]

  edge6proxy:
    prober: http
    timeout: 50s
    http:
      valid_status_codes: []
      method: GET
      no_follow_redirects: false
      fail_if_ssl: false
      fail_if_not_ssl: false
#      protocol: tcp
      preferred_ip_protocol: ip4
      proxy_url: address:8080
      tls_config:
        insecure_skip_verify: true

[Pete Leese]

its fine now, clue was in the title...

proxy_URL