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Cloudprober

Active probing for distributed systems and network reliability

Monitoring & Status ★ 694 stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Cloudprober is an active monitoring tool that runs probes against your services to measure availability and latency from an external perspective. It auto-discovers targets, exports Prometheus metrics, and supports HTTP, ping, DNS, gRPC, and UDP probes.

Key features

  • Black-box probing for many protocols
  • Automatic target discovery
  • Native Prometheus metrics
  • Low memory footprint

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Cloud-native target discovery
  • Single static binary

Trade-offs

  • YAML configuration required
  • No bundled dashboard

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