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Blackbox prober exporter

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Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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107 open issues indexed

Feature Request: Add capacity to consider a list of TLS Alerts as expected and to therefore succeed if and only if they happen Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1674 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
make fails because of wrong yaml indentation in testdata files Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1672 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Request a patch release: v0.28.0 image ships CVEs already fixed on master Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1668 · 8 reactions · Opened Sep 2, 2026
TCP: Support for send_bytes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1657 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Basic Auth is stripped on same-host redirects after the target hostname is rewritten to an IP Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1656 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Add SKI as a label to HTTPS certificate labels and allow to disable fingerprint and serialnumber Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1581 · Opened May 16, 2026
Release new version including fix for GO-2026-4918 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1580 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened May 11, 2026
Security: please rebuild blackbox-exporter release image for CVE-2025-68121 / CVE-2026-33186 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1567 · 26 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2026
ICMP probe fails with "sendmsg: message too long" error after receiving ICMP Type 3 Code 4 (Fragmentation Needed) packets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1560 · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Update ca-certificates.crt in blackbox exporter docker image Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1547 · 7 reactions · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Log stream separation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1529 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2026
RFE: Support more failure metrics for tcp prober query_response failures Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1528 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
RFE: Support explicit failure in tcp prober query_response Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1527 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Blackbox panics if tcp prober query_responses contain multiple 'labels:' Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1526 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Support for happy eyeballs multi-IP failover for HTTP probes (probe_success false negatives) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1512 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 26, 2025
Support params_file / composed target for passing secrets (e.g. accessKey) to HTTP probes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1511 · Opened Dec 23, 2025
Version 0.28.0 always logs probe failures (as 'ERROR' level failures) with no way to turn it off Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1510 · 10 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Feature Request: host discovery for blackbox exporter based on ingress annotations Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1498 · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Feature Request: Add Hostname column besides Module/Target/Result/Debug Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1492 · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Oauth2: authenticate via certificate/private key instead of clientId/clientSecret Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1475 · Opened Oct 2, 2025
oauth2. Hide secrets in endpoint_params. Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1465 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Adding Network HOP Count Feature for TCP Probes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1463 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Blackbox exporter ignores proxy_url seting Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1455 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2025
why using 'skip_resolve_phase_with_proxy: true' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1454 · Opened Aug 28, 2025
HTTPS probes with TLS 1.2 fail on 0.26.0 and higher Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1437 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Next release could use a CA bundle update Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1429 · 4 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Jun 23, 2025
New Feature: Check VMC certificate Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1414 · Opened May 13, 2025
[Feature Request] Parameter to preserve host name instead IP in HTTP module Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1403 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Unable to verify self-signed certificate Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1389 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Add support for ssl certificate start time metric Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1386 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2025
metric that allows to build a link to history element Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1384 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2025
support Content-Length Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1375 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 4, 2025
TCP probe support for socks proxy Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1364 · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 3, 2025
Does blackbox exporter support `AWS Signature` authorization type? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1357 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2025
Feature request: http response output processing plugins Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1353 · Opened Jan 8, 2025
Add support for AIA (Authority Information Access) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1350 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2025
Issue with cookies and redirects Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1332 · Opened Dec 6, 2024
Feature Request: Support Different Proxies for Individual Targets Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1310 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Feature: Add json Tags Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1308 · Opened Oct 15, 2024
Feature Request: gRPC Unary Method Support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1305 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2024
SCRAM-SHA-1(-PLUS) + SCRAM-SHA-256(-PLUS) + SCRAM-SHA-512(-PLUS) + SCRAM-SHA3-512(-PLUS) supports Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1288 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2024
Add JSON Schema Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1279 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2024
RFE: In the DNS prober, allow setting the EDNS0 extended reply size to some size Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1259 · Opened Jun 22, 2024
RFE: in the DNS prober, expose the state of the 'tc' response flag (and possibly others) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1258 · Opened Jun 22, 2024
Support GODEBUG=netdns=cgo # force cgo resolver as an alternative DNS resolver mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1256 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2024
feature: param to not resolve target address Open

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prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1235 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2024
Feature request: DNS RRSIG signature validity time Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1217 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 23, 2024
Allow setting fail_if_body_matches_regexp dynamically Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1213 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Mar 21, 2024
RFE: Expose DNS prober metrics for the queried name and query type Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1208 · Opened Mar 14, 2024
source_ip_address option enhancement Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prometheus/blackbox_exporter#1196 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 25, 2024

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