Thanks a lot for your responses . >From the initial testes Black box exporter works just fine for me . thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, I do have access to the backends servers Le mer. 25 mars 2020 à 03:08, Cameron Kerr <[email protected]> a écrit : > If you have a VIP, then chances are you have multiple servers behind it > and have some type of health-check URI/mechanism in place (or using a > default one, such as whether a TCP connection or ICMP ping succeeds). > > I would suggest that you use the blackbox_exporter, but you use it to > monitor: > > * each backends healthcheck (directly, in the same manner that your > load-balancer would) --- this will help you know when your application is > ABOUT to fail (eg. a rolling upgrade is causing things to fall out of the > load-balancer). > * each backends application statistics (this could be a combination of > things like node_exporter, plus perhaps things like node_exporter's file > metrics, or jmx_exporter, or .... > * the application as experienced at the front-door(s). You might also > imagine having multiple targets for this if you have multiple points of > presence for your application (eg. CDNs) or just want to test from > different places. > * test SSL certificates too (I believe you can do this using > blackbox_exporter, but I haven't looked myself). If you terminate SSL in > multiple places (eg. your load-balancer deployment is layer-4 and not > layer-7) then monitor all of these places. > * if testing per-server application readiness/health which is designed to > bust through caching layers and exercise the various backends such as > database and storage, then you might want to change the scrape interval for > that... or use something like node_exporter with the file metrics so you > can have some other testing/readiness engine running tests and then > reporting the results quickly. > > Note that load-balancer configuration may influence error behaviour. For > example, if the VIP goes down, does ARP respond? If it doesn't, then that > may cause probes to take much longer before timing out, so be mindful of > timeout settings for blackbox_exporter and tune if required. > > You didn't say whether you had access to the various backends, so I've > made some assumptions here, as if you're like where I work, you have access > to the servers, but perhaps not access to the load-balancer. > > There's lots to think about with this topic; just take what's useful. > > Cheers, > Cameron > > On Thursday, 19 March 2020 22:54:00 UTC+13, Ilhem Hamdi wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to Monitor VIP on F5 by : >> - Monitoring the ssl certfications >> - Monitoring the status of VIP ( Up /down) >> >> The probleme is I don't have access on F5 , all I have is the URLS to >> check the connectivity of the VIP or I use curl command to check the >> expiration of certifcations I need to Monitor these VIP via Prometheus ans >> send alerts to clients . I konw that you can configure exporter to do the >> job for you but is it possible if you don't have acess to network >> equipeemnt ? any recommendation ? >> >> Thanks >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" 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-users/08371e91-ec74-4c0d-bc66-3a3a2c4dd024%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/08371e91-ec74-4c0d-bc66-3a3a2c4dd024%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" 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-users/CAHuiLcfBx9xGudq1kr9u38mBVNnEEKPCtktzAX5qDPoWbjf-Hw%40mail.gmail.com.
