Prometheus Blackbox Exporter
Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is maintained in the observability catalog as black box prober with an explicit evidence and lifecycle record.
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16 directly connected nodes · 17 typed relationships · 203 muted catalog entries
List direct catalog relationships
- CatalogObservability Technology
- HierarchyPrometheus
- RelatedPrometheus
- RelatedGrafana
- TelemetryMetrics
- TelemetrySynthetics
- ArchitectureHost Observability
- ArchitectureMicroservices Observability
- ArchitectureCloud Observability
- ArchitectureWeb Application Observability
- ArchitectureOn-Premise Observability
- ArchitectureLinux
- FunctionData Collection
- FunctionTelemetry Routing
- FunctionSynthetic Testing
- FunctionMetrics Analysis
- FunctionIntegrations
Catalog position
Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is a direct sub-tool of Prometheus and an independently deployable Prometheus project component. It probes remote targets using configured modules and exposes the results as Prometheus metrics for scraping [1][2]. This establishes a stable catalog identity and scope; it does not independently validate product outcomes or deployment fit.
| Field | Catalog record |
|---|---|
| Parent technology | Prometheus |
| Entity type | Open Source Project |
| Signals | Metrics |
| Deployment | Self Hosted, Container |
| License model | Apache-2.0 |
| Origin | Global |
Research stance
Treat this page as a maintainable evidence record, not an endorsement or direct ranking. Challenge the stance when the classification, evidence, or stated limits no longer match current primary evidence.
Technology-map evidence
How this tool is positioned
- Capability coverage
- 17% 2 of 12 families
- Reference cost
- $30per capability / month
- Market breadth
- 88/100 bounded evidence index
- Confidence
- documenteddocumented inputs
Focused probe collection and exported metrics; cost is a small operations allowance and breadth is public-project activity.
Axis sources: Prometheus Blackbox Exporter documentation
Source record
Bibliography
Prometheus project, “Prometheus Blackbox Exporter documentation.” [Online]. Available: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter. [Accessed: Aug. 12, 2026].
Canonical first-party or project documentation used for catalog identity and stated scope.Canonical source ↗Return to article ↑Prometheus project, “Understanding and using the multi-target exporter pattern.” [Online]. Available: https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/multi-target-exporter/. [Accessed: Aug. 24, 2026].
First-party guide establishing Blackbox Exporter as a multi-target prober that exposes probe results as Prometheus metrics.Canonical source ↗Return to article ↑Prometheus project, “Prometheus exporter project website.” [Online]. Available: https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/multi-target-exporter/. [Accessed: Aug. 14, 2026].
Official price-list or product-site reference. Availability: free-open-source.Canonical source ↗Return to article ↑Prometheus project, “Prometheus Blackbox Exporter repository.” GitHub. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter. [Accessed: Aug. 14, 2026].
Known limits
Unresolved unknowns
- Current editions, pricing, availability, and independently measured outcomes require dated verification.
Public review
Discuss and correct
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