Monitoring endpoints is an important aspect of system observability for diagnosing performance and availability issues. In this article, we will cover in detail how to achieve endpoint monitoring in Kubernetes using Blackbox Exporter and Prometheus.
What is a Prometheus Exporter?
Prometheus exporter is a translator that can fetch statistics from a non-Prometheus system and can convert the statistics to Prometheus understandable metrics, i.e. the Prometheus exposition format. There are a number of Prometheus exporters that are used to export existing metrics from third-party systems to Prometheus metrics, some of them are: