Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-23 Thread 'Marcelo Magallón' via Prometheus Developers
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:40 AM Ben Kochie wrote: > The problem I have with the histogram approach (and this is partly due to >> the current way histograms work in Prometheus) is that I don't know the >> distribution a priori. >> >> I let smokeping_prober run for a few days against several IP

Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-22 Thread Ben Kochie
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 3:48 AM Marcelo Magallón < marcelo.magal...@grafana.com> wrote: > Thanks Ben. > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:37 PM Ben Kochie wrote: > >> The problem with what you're proposing is you're getting an invalid >> picture of data over time. This is the problem with the original

Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-21 Thread 'Marcelo Magallón' via Prometheus Developers
Thanks Ben. On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:37 PM Ben Kochie wrote: > The problem with what you're proposing is you're getting an invalid > picture of data over time. This is the problem with the original smokeping > program that the smokeping prober is trying to solve. > > The original smokeping

Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-18 Thread Ben Kochie
The problem with what you're proposing is you're getting an invalid picture of data over time. This is the problem with the original smokeping program that the smokeping prober is trying to solve. The original smokeping software does exactly what you're talking about. It sends out a burst of 10

Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-18 Thread 'Marcelo Magallón' via Prometheus Developers
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:15 PM Stuart Clark wrote: > > Thoughts? > > Is there any reason you can't use the Blackbox Exporter as it currently > is, just decreasing the scrape interval? Prometheus can scrape as > infrequently as every 2 minutes or as frequently as several times a second. >

Re: [prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-17 Thread Stuart Clark
On 17/02/2021 23:01, 'Marcelo Magallón' via Prometheus Developers wrote: 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

[prometheus-developers] Difference in scope between smokeping_prober and blackbox_exporter?

2021-02-17 Thread 'Marcelo Magallón' via Prometheus Developers
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