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I can recommend these Ansible roles for deployment. The only requirement is SSH access to the target hosts.
If you really only want ping, you can use the blackbox_exporter to provide probes.
But, really, what you should do is install the node_exporter on all the servers you have, and have Prometheus poll that. This way you get a "ping" via the up metric, as well as all of the CPU/memory/disk/network data.
I'm not sure I really understand the question. Prometheus is a full metrics-based monitoring system. It's highly flexible in terms of what data you collect and how you alert on it.