Which exporter would be best suited for basic HTTP probing?

TheBlackbox Exporteris the Prometheus component designed specifically forprobing endpoints over various network protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, ICMP, and DNS. It acts as a generic probe service, allowing Prometheus to test endpoints' availability, latency, and correctness without requiring instrumentation in the target application itself.

For basicHTTP probing, the Blackbox Exporter performs HTTP GET or POST requests to defined URLs and exposes metrics like probe success, latency, response code, and SSL certificate validity. This makes it ideal for uptime and availability monitoring.

By contrast, theJMX exporteris used for collecting metrics from Java applications, theApache exporterfor Apache HTTP Server metrics, and theSNMP exporterfor network devices. Thus, only the Blackbox Exporter serves the purpose of HTTP probing.