Hi, I'm trying to understand the difference in scope between blackbox_exporter and smokeping_prober.
I was thinking of extending blackbox_exporter with functionality similar to smokeping_prober. In the context of BBE, the existing ping prober sends exactly one ICMP packet per probe and the interval is controlled by the prometheus scrape interval. With smokeping_prober it sends ICMP packets at regular intervals and it builds a histogram to be collected by prometheus at the scrape interval. For BBE, what I was thinking is allowing the user to specify a number of ICMP packets to be sent (and an interval) so that it can present min / max / avg / dev / loss metrics. The number and the interval would have to be very restricted to avoid very long scrape times. The reason for this is that I don't need the continuous pinging functionality provided by smokeping_prober (very short interval over a long period of time) but I also can't do with just the current BBE functionality (relatively long interval over a long period of time). What I'm looking for is a small number of repetitions spaced at a comparatively long interval so that I can derive a more representative packet loss metric (1 packet lost out of 5 over a 10 minute interval is not the same as 1 packet loss out of 5 over 5 seconds). Thoughts? Thanks! -- Marcelo Magallón -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABiJYgYrBOER4eJNi8qSj%2BSk8Upjqobb2VqPFq8GTyCe8VeJdQ%40mail.gmail.com.
