probe_success metrics not showing up in prometheus Blackbox Exporter

[Unni Sathyarajan]

Hi All, 

I had configured blackbox exporter with prometheus to monitor my microservices availability. 

But the as per the documentation, to create a alert you need a probe_success metric based on it value we trigger alerts. 

The probe_success metric is not showing up in the prometheus expression browser.

Without using this metric the prometheus / blackbox is showing non existent website as UP . 

For Example:

 

Please advice. 

Thanks in advance.

[Brian Brazil]

On 24 May 2018 at 14:32, Unni Sathyarajan <unnisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All, 

I had configured blackbox exporter with prometheus to monitor my microservices availability. 

But the as per the documentation, to create a alert you need a probe_success metric based on it value we trigger alerts. 

The probe_success metric is not showing up in the prometheus expression browser.

You need to use /probe to perform probes. /metrics is the metrics of the blackbox exporter iself.

Brian

 

Without using this metric the prometheus / blackbox is showing non existent website as UP . 

For Example:

 

Please advice. 

Thanks in advance.

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[Unni Sathyarajan]

Great Brian, it worked. 

But why does google and youtube I tested with giving the probe_success value of 0 whereas my personal website it gives the correct value of 1 which means UP.

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Brian Brazil <brian....@robustperception.io> wrote:

On 24 May 2018 at 14:32, Unni Sathyarajan <unnisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All, 

I had configured blackbox exporter with prometheus to monitor my microservices availability. 

But the as per the documentation, to create a alert you need a probe_success metric based on it value we trigger alerts. 

The probe_success metric is not showing up in the prometheus expression browser.

You need to use /probe to perform probes. /metrics is the metrics of the blackbox exporter iself.

Brian

 

Without using this metric the prometheus / blackbox is showing non existent website as UP . 

For Example:

 

Please advice. 

Thanks in advance.

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[Brian Brazil]

On 24 May 2018 at 15:30, Unni Sathyarajan <unnisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great Brian, it worked. 

But why does google and youtube I tested with giving the probe_success value of 0 whereas my personal website it gives the correct value of 1 which means UP.

Most likely you have a broken ipv6 setup, as the blackbox exporter prefers v6 by default.

Brian

 

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Brian Brazil <brian.brazil@robustperception.io> wrote:

On 24 May 2018 at 14:32, Unni Sathyarajan <unnisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All, 

I had configured blackbox exporter with prometheus to monitor my microservices availability. 

But the as per the documentation, to create a alert you need a probe_success metric based on it value we trigger alerts. 

The probe_success metric is not showing up in the prometheus expression browser.

You need to use /probe to perform probes. /metrics is the metrics of the blackbox exporter iself.

Brian

 

Without using this metric the prometheus / blackbox is showing non existent website as UP . 

For Example:

 

Please advice. 

Thanks in advance.

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[Unni Sathyarajan]

Thanks, Brian, I enabled ipv6 and it worked.