Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

An exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP and gRPC for use by the Prometheus monitoring system.

Posted Oct 10, 2025

By Proxmox-Scripts

1 min read

Installation

Default install:

  
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/ct/prometheus-blackbox-exporter.sh)"

CPU: 1 cores RAM: 512 MB Disk: 4 GB OS: Debian 13

Config file:

/opt/blackbox-exporter/blackbox.yml

Please adjust the Proxmox credentials in the configuration file!

Port: 9115