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Blackbox exporter role¶

Deploy Blackbox exporter container.

Usage¶

Configure the role.

# https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/blackbox-exporter
blackbox_exporter_image: prom/blackbox-exporter:v0.26.0
blackbox_exporter_hostname: blackbox01
blackbox_exporter_description: Probing service for prometheus # default: Blackbox exporter
blackbox_exporter_data_dir: /usr/share/blackbox # default: "/usr/share/{{ blackbox_exporter_hostname }}"

And include it in your playbook.

- hosts: blackbox_exporter
  roles:
  - role: blackbox_exporter

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Debug website probe¶

On the host run:

WEBSITE=https://example.com
curl "http://blackbox01:9115/probe?target=$WEBSITE&module=http_redirect&debug=true"