speedtest_exporter VS blackbox_exporter

Hi All, Earlier I was using Speedtest-Tracker ( henrywhitaker3/Speedtest-Tracker: Continuously track your internet speed (github.com) ) to track my internet speed, but unfortunately, it is no working properly, and there is no update since 2021, so, i was looking for an alternative for my Raspberry Pi and I came across this wonderful implementation from ( danopstech/speedtest_exporter: 🏎️ Prometheus exporter that runs speedtest and exposes results (github.com) ) danopstech, but is is also not updated since 2021 and no longer working, then while checking all the forks, I found one by olqs ( olqs/speedtest_exporter: 🏎️ Prometheus exporter that runs speedtest and exposes results (github.com) ), and I have created my own fork with ARM64 support, and fortunately it is working fine after build. If you are interested, please feel free to use this.

This uses my Starlink exporter I shared a while ago, along with a speedtest exporter and ping tester blackbox exporter. It also starts a Prometheus and Grafana container for you.

Two Prometheus exporters: https://github.com/danopstech/starlink_exporter https://github.com/danopstech/speedtest_exporter

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).