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Blackbox prober exporter

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This is all built in very nicely to https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter - Though they could use a blazing red link to an example rules file.
Or with Prometheus: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

https endpoints will include the probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry metric, which is the expiration in UNIX epoch seconds. Use with the builtin time() function.

Isn't that similar to using https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter with prometheus, alertmanager and grafana?
I like the simple UI and visualization of the timeline! It kinda reminds me of the Prometheus Blackbox exporter. I think you can achieve similar acceptance tests. See https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
Yes, of course, Its a great tool to track statistics and write alerts. Prometheus is designed to scrape the stats from the services directly, but its also possible to do some kind of active checks. Maybe for checking the ssl cert expiry date you can use the blackbox exporter. https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
We're currently investigating two solutions:

1) https://github.com/arachnys/cabot 2) Prometheus with https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

Keen to hear what others are using