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Setup Uptime Checks

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Configure external uptime monitoring using Blackbox Exporter and Prometheus. Implement SSL certificate monitoring, HTTP endpoint health checks, and status pages for customer-facing visibility. Use when monitoring customer-facing endpoints such as APIs and websites, tracking SSL certificate expiration, validating service availability from multiple regions, creating public status pages, or meeting SLA requirements for uptime reporting.

Purpose

To enable users to configure robust external uptime monitoring, track SSL certificate expirations, and provide public status visibility for their customer-facing services.

Features

  • Configure Blackbox Exporter for various probe types
  • Integrate Blackbox Exporter with Prometheus for metric collection
  • Set up Prometheus alerting rules for endpoint downtime and SSL expiry
  • Guide on building uptime monitoring dashboards
  • Provide options for status page implementation

Use Cases

  • Monitoring customer-facing APIs and websites
  • Tracking SSL certificate expiration dates
  • Validating service availability from multiple regions
  • Creating public-facing service status pages
  • Meeting SLA requirements for uptime reporting

Non-Goals

  • Internal network monitoring
  • Application performance monitoring (APM) beyond basic health checks
  • Automated certificate renewal

Workflow

  1. Deploy Blackbox Exporter
  2. Configure Blackbox Modules
  3. Configure Prometheus Scrape Jobs
  4. Create Uptime Alerts
  5. Build Uptime Dashboard
  6. Set Up Status Page

Practices

  • Observability
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Infrastructure as Code

Prerequisites

  • Docker or Kubernetes environment
  • Prometheus instance
  • Bash-compatible shell

Documentation

  • info:Configuration & parameter referenceWhile the SKILL.md outlines steps, specific default values for all optional parameters (e.g., Prometheus instance details, status page tool configurations) are not explicitly documented.

Installation

/plugin install agent-almanac@pjt222-agent-almanac

Quality Score

Verified
98 /100
Analyzed about 20 hours ago

Trust Signals

Last commit1 day ago
Stars14
LicenseMIT
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