phpservermon VS blackbox_exporter

I use php servermon, it's pretty simple compared to things like zabbix but you need php, mysql and a webserver

Wrote my own, they're all too expensive. I've always recommended PHP Server Monitor for those who are interested: https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon

I'm using https://www.phpservermonitor.org/ on a remote shared host to ping my home server. Extremely easy to setup and just works. (even if it's not too pretty)

absolutely simplest one to setup is https://www.phpservermonitor.org/

If you are looking for something really simple with a web dashboard there is https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon

Throw up a lamp stack on the PI and use PHPServerMonitor here's the link for their github https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon this is what I use, not only does it monitor your websitew it can also monitor ports for services too really handy becuase it can also send you email and sms notifications when servers go down so you don't have to be watching the screen to know if a host has gone down.

Check https://github.com/phpservermon/phpservermon

https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/...

So you need 2 modules, one for each ip version. As for autamating setting these up, we deploy our Prometheus server with salt so we can use Jinja templating in all our Prometheus config files. That really cuts down on repeating boiler plate code.

This is also interesting for other reasons; in host downtime situations you can sometime see they will drop one type of traffic and not the other.

A Pi is more than enough to run a full monitoring stack. Why reinvent the wheel?

You can also use the blackbox_exporter to probe various endpoints. But in reality, you don't need to do this most of the time since the up metric gets you what you want.

Synthetic Monitoring is the Grafana Cloud implementation. It uses the blackbox_exporter

Prometheus blackbox_exporter. Free and open source.

Check something called blackboxexporter https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

I have seen some people doing with these traditional relational databases, and I was wondering if it could be a good fit for prometheus+grafana as I have been messing around with prometheus BlackBox exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter) for web status monitoring.

You should look into the projects https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter and https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

You could use prometheus as a monitoring tool, blackbox_exporter to "export" the urls to prometheus, alertmanager for notifications, and grafana for nice gui dashboards (and maybe also notifications).