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<h1>prometheus.prometheus.blackbox_exporter role – Deploy and manage Prometheus blackbox exporter<a class="headerlink" href="#prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-deploy-and-manage-prometheus-blackbox-exporter" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This role is part of the <a class="reference external" href="https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/prometheus/prometheus/">prometheus.prometheus collection</a> (version 0.7.0).</p>
<p>It is not included in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ansible-core</span></code>.
To check whether it is installed, run <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ansible-galaxy</span> <span class="pre">collection</span> <span class="pre">list</span></code>.</p>
<p>To install it use: <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ansible-galaxy</span> <span class="pre">collection</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">prometheus.prometheus</span></code>.</p>
<p>To use it in a playbook, specify: <code class="code docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prometheus.prometheus.blackbox_exporter</span></code>.</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#synopsis" id="id2">Synopsis</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#parameters" id="id3">Parameters</a></p></li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1" role="doc-backlink">Entry point <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">main</span></code> – Deploy and manage Prometheus blackbox exporter</a><a class="headerlink" href="#entry-point-main-deploy-and-manage-prometheus-blackbox-exporter" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" role="doc-backlink">Synopsis</a><a class="headerlink" href="#synopsis" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
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<li><p>Deploy and manage Prometheus blackbox exporter which allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP.</p></li>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" role="doc-backlink">Parameters</a><a class="headerlink" href="#parameters" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<table class="longtable ansible-option-table docutils align-default" style="width: 100%">
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<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Parameter</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Comments</p></th>
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<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_install_dir"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-binary-install-dir"><strong>blackbox_exporter_binary_install_dir</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_install_dir" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
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<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p><em>Advanced</em></p>
<p>Directory to install blackbox_exporter binary</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;/usr/local/bin&quot;</span></code></p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_local_dir"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-binary-local-dir"><strong>blackbox_exporter_binary_local_dir</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_local_dir" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Enables the use of local packages instead of those distributed on github.</p>
<p>The parameter may be set to a directory where the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">blackbox_exporter</span></code> binary is stored on the host where ansible is run.</p>
<p>This overrides the <em>blackbox_exporter_version</em> parameter</p>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_url"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-binary-url"><strong>blackbox_exporter_binary_url</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_binary_url" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
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<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>URL of the blackbox_exporter binaries .tar.gz file</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;https://github.com/{{</span> <span class="pre">_blackbox_exporter_repo</span> <span class="pre">}}/releases/download/v{{</span> <span class="pre">blackbox_exporter_version</span> <span class="pre">}}/blackbox_exporter-{{</span> <span class="pre">blackbox_exporter_version</span> <span class="pre">}}.linux-{{</span> <span class="pre">go_arch_map[ansible_architecture]</span> <span class="pre">|</span> <span class="pre">default(ansible_architecture)</span> <span class="pre">}}.tar.gz&quot;</span></code></p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_checksums_url"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-checksums-url"><strong>blackbox_exporter_checksums_url</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_checksums_url" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>URL of the blackbox exporter checksums file</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;https://github.com/{{</span> <span class="pre">_blackbox_exporter_repo</span> <span class="pre">}}/releases/download/v{{</span> <span class="pre">blackbox_exporter_version</span> <span class="pre">}}/sha256sums.txt&quot;</span></code></p>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_cli_flags"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-cli-flags"><strong>blackbox_exporter_cli_flags</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_cli_flags" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">dictionary</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Additional configuration flags passed to blackbox exporter binary at startup</p>
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</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_config_dir"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-config-dir"><strong>blackbox_exporter_config_dir</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_config_dir" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Directory where the blackbox exporter configuration file is placed</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;/etc&quot;</span></code></p>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_configuration_modules"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-configuration-modules"><strong>blackbox_exporter_configuration_modules</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_configuration_modules" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">dictionary</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Endpoints configuration</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{&quot;http_2xx&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">{&quot;http&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">{&quot;method&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">&quot;GET&quot;,</span> <span class="pre">&quot;valid_status_codes&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">[]},</span> <span class="pre">&quot;prober&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">&quot;http&quot;,</span> <span class="pre">&quot;timeout&quot;:</span> <span class="pre">&quot;5s&quot;}}</span></code></p>
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<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_group"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-group"><strong>blackbox_exporter_group</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_group" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>The group the exporter runs as</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;blackbox-exp&quot;</span></code></p>
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</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_skip_install"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-skip-install"><strong>blackbox_exporter_skip_install</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_skip_install" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">boolean</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Blackbox exporter installation tasks gets skipped when set to true.</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-choices">Choices:</strong></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="ansible-option-default-bold docutils literal notranslate"><strong><span class="pre">false</span></strong></code> <span class="ansible-option-choices-default-mark">← (default)</span></p></li>
<li><p><code class="ansible-option-choices-entry docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_user"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-user"><strong>blackbox_exporter_user</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_user" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>The user the exporter runs as</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;blackbox-exp&quot;</span></code></p>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_version"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-version"><strong>blackbox_exporter_version</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_version" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Blackbox exporter package version. Also accepts latest as parameter.</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;0.24.0&quot;</span></code></p>
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</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="ansible-option-cell">
<div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_web_listen_address"></div><p class="ansible-option-title" id="ansible-collections-prometheus-prometheus-blackbox-exporter-role-parameter-main-blackbox-exporter-web-listen-address"><strong>blackbox_exporter_web_listen_address</strong></p>
<a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-main--blackbox_exporter_web_listen_address" title="Permalink to this option"></a><p class="ansible-option-type-line"><span class="ansible-option-type">string</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><div class="ansible-option-cell"><p>Address on which blackbox exporter will be listening</p>
<p class="ansible-option-line"><strong class="ansible-option-default-bold">Default:</strong> <code class="ansible-option-default docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;0.0.0.0:9115&quot;</span></code></p>
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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" role="doc-backlink">Authors</a><a class="headerlink" href="#authors" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
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<li><p>Prometheus Community</p></li>
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<li><span><a aria-role="button" class="ansible-link reference external" href="https://github.com/prometheus-community/ansible/issues" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">Issue Tracker</a></span></li>
<li><span><a aria-role="button" class="ansible-link reference external" href="https://prometheus.io" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">Homepage</a></span></li>
<li><span><a aria-role="button" class="ansible-link reference external" href="https://github.com/prometheus-community/ansible" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">Repository (Sources)</a></span></li>
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