Cloudprober
Active probing for distributed systems and network reliability
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
Cloudprober replaces
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