Ansible role for Blackbox Exporter

This role installs Blackbox exporter that allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP. Blackbox source: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter

Role Variables

Below are the roles variables with the respective default values. Usually you'd only change the blackbox_version.

blackbox_version: 0.2.0
blackbox_url: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/download/v{{ blackbox_version }}/blackbox_exporter-{{ blackbox_version }}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
blackbox_install_dir: /opt/blackbox_exporter
blackbox_config_file: /etc/blackbox.yml
blackbox_pid_file: /var/run/blackbox.pid
blackbox_log_file: /var/log/blackbox.log
blackbox_log_level: info
blackbox_log_format: ''
blackbox_user: root
blackbox_group: root
blackbox_service_name: blackbox
blackbox_web_listen_address: ":9115"

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: ansible-blackbox-exporter, blackbox_version: 0.2.0 }

Test

$ molecule test

License

MIT

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