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Custom probers

Insight uses the Blackbox Exporter provided by Prometheus as a blackbox monitoring solution, allowing detection of target instances via HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, ICMP, TCP, and gRPC. It can be used in the following scenarios:

  • HTTP/HTTPS: URL/API availability monitoring
  • ICMP: Host availability monitoring
  • TCP: Port availability monitoring
  • DNS: Domain name resolution

In this page, we will explain how to configure custom probers in an existing Blackbox ConfigMap.

ICMP prober is not enabled by default in Insight because it requires higher permissions. Therfore We will use the HTTP prober as an example to demonstrate how to modify the ConfigMap to achieve custom HTTP probing.

Procedure

  1. Go to Clusters in Container Management and enter the details of the target cluster.
  2. Click the left navigation bar and select ConfigMaps & Secrets -> ConfigMaps .

  3. Find the ConfigMap named insight-agent-prometheus-blackbox-exporter and click Edit YAML .

    Add custom probers under modules :

module:
  http_2xx:
    prober: http
    timeout: 5s
    http:
      valid_http_versions: [HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2]
      valid_status_codes: []  # Defaults to 2xx
      method: GET


module:
  ICMP: # Example of ICMP prober configuration
    prober: icmp
    timeout: 5s
    icmp:
      preferred_ip_protocol: ip4
icmp_example: # Example 2 of ICMP prober configuration
  prober: icmp
  timeout: 5s
  icmp:
    preferred_ip_protocol: "ip4"
    source_ip_address: "127.0.0.1"
Since ICMP requires higher permissions, we also need to elevate the pod permissions. Otherwise, an operation not permitted error will occur. There are two ways to elevate permissions:

  • Directly edit the BlackBox Exporter deployment file to enable it

    apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: insight-agent-prometheus-blackbox-exporter
  namespace: insight-system
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: blackbox-exporter
          image: # ... (image, args, ports, etc. remain unchanged)
          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
          securityContext:
            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
            capabilities:
              add:
              - NET_RAW
              drop:
              - ALL
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
            runAsGroup: 0
            runAsNonRoot: false
            runAsUser: 0

  • Elevate permissions via helm upgrade

    prometheus-blackbox-exporter:
  enabled: true
  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 0
    runAsGroup: 0
    readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
    runAsNonRoot: false
    allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
    capabilities:
      add: ["NET_RAW"]

Info

For more probers, refer to blackbox_exporter Configuration.

Other References

The following YAML file contains various probers such as HTTP, TCP, SMTP, ICMP, and DNS. You can modify the configuration file of insight-agent-prometheus-blackbox-exporter according to your needs.

Click to view the complete YAML file 
kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: insight-agent-prometheus-blackbox-exporter
  namespace: insight-system
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/instance: insight-agent
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
    app.kubernetes.io/name: prometheus-blackbox-exporter
    app.kubernetes.io/version: v0.24.0
    helm.sh/chart: prometheus-blackbox-exporter-8.8.0
  annotations:
    meta.helm.sh/release-name: insight-agent
    meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: insight-system
data:
  blackbox.yaml: |
    modules:
      HTTP_GET:
        prober: http
        timeout: 5s
        http:
          method: GET
          valid_http_versions: ["HTTP/1.1", "HTTP/2.0"]
          follow_redirects: true
          preferred_ip_protocol: "ip4"
      HTTP_POST:
        prober: http
        timeout: 5s
        http:
          method: POST
          body_size_limit: 1MB
      TCP:
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
      # Not enabled by default:
      # ICMP:
      #   prober: icmp
      #   timeout: 5s
      #   icmp:
      #     preferred_ip_protocol: ip4
      SSH:
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
        tcp:
          query_response:
          - expect: "^SSH-2.0-"
      POP3S:
        prober: tcp
        tcp:
          query_response:
          - expect: "^+OK"
          tls: true
          tls_config:
            insecure_skip_verify: false
      http_2xx_example:               # http prober example
        prober: http
        timeout: 5s                   # probe timeout
        http:
          valid_http_versions: ["HTTP/1.1", "HTTP/2.0"]                   # Version in the response, usually default
          valid_status_codes: []  # Defaults to 2xx                       # Valid range of response codes, probe successful if within this range
          method: GET                 # request method
          headers:                    # request headers
            Host: vhost.example.com
            Accept-Language: en-US
            Origin: example.com
          no_follow_redirects: false  # allow redirects
          fail_if_ssl: false   
          fail_if_not_ssl: false
          fail_if_body_matches_regexp:
            - "Could not connect to database"
          fail_if_body_not_matches_regexp:
            - "Download the latest version here"
          fail_if_header_matches: # Verifies that no cookies are set
            - header: Set-Cookie
              allow_missing: true
              regexp: '.*'
          fail_if_header_not_matches:
            - header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin
              regexp: '(\*|example\.com)'
          tls_config:                  # tls configuration for https requests
            insecure_skip_verify: false
          preferred_ip_protocol: "ip4" # defaults to "ip6"                 # Preferred IP protocol version
          ip_protocol_fallback: false  # no fallback to "ip6"            
      http_post_2xx:                   # http prober example with body
        prober: http
        timeout: 5s
        http:
          method: POST                 # probe request method
          headers:
            Content-Type: application/json
          body: '{"username":"admin","password":"123456"}'                   # body carried during probe
      http_basic_auth_example:         # prober example with username and password
        prober: http
        timeout: 5s
        http:
          method: POST
          headers:
            Host: "login.example.com"
          basic_auth:                  # username and password to be added during probe
            username: "username"
            password: "mysecret"
      http_custom_ca_example:
        prober: http
        http:
          method: GET
          tls_config:                  # root certificate used during probe
            ca_file: "/certs/my_cert.crt"
      http_gzip:
        prober: http
        http:
          method: GET
          compression: gzip            # compression method used during probe
      http_gzip_with_accept_encoding:
        prober: http
        http:
          method: GET
          compression: gzip
          headers:
            Accept-Encoding: gzip
      tls_connect:                     # TCP prober example
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
        tcp:
          tls: true                    # use TLS
      tcp_connect_example:
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
      imap_starttls:                   # IMAP email server probe configuration example
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
        tcp:
          query_response:
            - expect: "OK.*STARTTLS"
            - send: ". STARTTLS"
            - expect: "OK"
            - starttls: true
            - send: ". capability"
            - expect: "CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1"
      smtp_starttls:                   # SMTP email server probe configuration example
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
        tcp:
          query_response:
            - expect: "^220 ([^ ]+) ESMTP (.+)$"
            - send: "EHLO prober\r"
            - expect: "^250-STARTTLS"
            - send: "STARTTLS\r"
            - expect: "^220"
            - starttls: true
            - send: "EHLO prober\r"
            - expect: "^250-AUTH"
            - send: "QUIT\r"
      irc_banner_example:
        prober: tcp
        timeout: 5s
        tcp:
          query_response:
            - send: "NICK prober"
            - send: "USER prober prober prober :prober"
            - expect: "PING :([^ ]+)"
              send: "PONG ${1}"
            - expect: "^:[^ ]+ 001"
      # icmp_example:                    # ICMP prober configuration example
      #  prober: icmp
      #  timeout: 5s
      #  icmp:
      #    preferred_ip_protocol: "ip4"
      #    source_ip_address: "127.0.0.1"
      dns_udp_example:                 # DNS query example using UDP
        prober: dns
        timeout: 5s
        dns:
          query_name: "www.prometheus.io"                 # domain name to resolve
          query_type: "A"              # type corresponding to this domain
          valid_rcodes:
          - NOERROR
          validate_answer_rrs:
            fail_if_matches_regexp:
            - ".*127.0.0.1"
            fail_if_all_match_regexp:
            - ".*127.0.0.1"
            fail_if_not_matches_regexp:
            - "www.prometheus.io.\t300\tIN\tA\t127.0.0.1"
            fail_if_none_matches_regexp:
            - "127.0.0.1"
          validate_authority_rrs:
            fail_if_matches_regexp:
            - ".*127.0.0.1"
          validate_additional_rrs:
            fail_if_matches_regexp:
            - ".*127.0.0.1"
      dns_soa:
        prober: dns
        dns:
          query_name: "prometheus.io"
          query_type: "SOA"
      dns_tcp_example:               # DNS query example using TCP
        prober: dns
        dns:
          transport_protocol: "tcp" # defaults to "udp"
          preferred_ip_protocol: "ip4" # defaults to "ip6"
          query_name: "www.prometheus.io"

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