Merge pull request #19 from M0r13n/use-blackbox-exporter

replace smokeping with blackbox

README.md

@@ -149,13 +149,13 @@ Done. You should now be able to open the Grafana dashboard on Port 3000 of your
 
 ## Latency Monitoring
 
-This projects uses a [smokeping prober](https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober) to measure network latency and packet loss. By default three targets are configured:
+This projects uses the Prometheus Blackbox exporter to measure network latency. By default three targets are configured:
 
 - 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare)
 - 8.8.8.8 (Google)
 - 9.9.9.9 (IBM)
 
-You may adjust **smokeping/smokeping.yml** according to your needs.
+You may adjust **blackbox/blackbox.yml** according to your needs.
 
 ## Multiple Nodes
 
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ docker-compose -f docker-compose-armored.yml  up -d
 - [A somewhat useable Grafana Dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/10950)
 - [A Prometheus exporter for Mikrotik devices written in Python](https://github.com/akpw/mktxp).
 - [A Prometheus exporter for Mikrotik devices written in Go](https://github.com/nshttpd/mikrotik-exporter)
-- [Smokeping](https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober)
+- [Prometheus Blackbox exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/example.yml)
 
 ## FAQ
 

blackbox/blackbox.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+modules:
+  icmp_ttl5:
+    prober: icmp
+    timeout: 5s
+    icmp:
+      ttl: 10

docker-compose-armored.yml

@@ -78,15 +78,14 @@ services:
       - default
     restart: unless-stopped
 
-  # https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober
-  smokeping:
-    image: quay.io/superq/smokeping-prober:latest
-    container_name: mikrotik-smokeping-prober
-    security_opt:
-      - apparmor:docker-mikrotik-monitoring
-    command: --config.file=/etc/smokeping/smokeping.yml
+  blackbox:
+    image: quay.io/prometheus/blackbox-exporter:latest
+    container_name: mikrotik-blackbox-exporter
+    command: --config.file=/config/blackbox.yml
     volumes:
-      - ./smokeping/smokeping.yml:/etc/smokeping/smokeping.yml
+      - ./blackbox/blackbox.yml:/config/blackbox.yml
     networks:
       - default
     restart: unless-stopped
+    security_opt:
+      - apparmor:docker-mikrotik-monitoring

docker-compose.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ services:
     command:
       - '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
       - '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
+      - '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=1y'  # <= adjust the storage retention period of Prometheus
     restart: unless-stopped
     networks:
       - default
@@ -71,13 +72,13 @@ services:
       - default
     restart: unless-stopped
 
-  # https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober
-  smokeping:
-    image: quay.io/superq/smokeping-prober:latest
-    container_name: mikrotik-smokeping-prober
-    command: --config.file=/etc/smokeping/smokeping.yml
+  # https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/example.yml
+  blackbox:
+    image: quay.io/prometheus/blackbox-exporter:latest
+    container_name: mikrotik-blackbox-exporter
+    command: --config.file=/config/blackbox.yml
     volumes:
-      - ./smokeping/smokeping.yml:/etc/smokeping/smokeping.yml
+      - ./blackbox/blackbox.yml:/config/blackbox.yml
     networks:
       - default
     restart: unless-stopped

prometheus/prometheus.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ rule_files:
 # Here it's Prometheus itself.
 scrape_configs:
   # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
-  - job_name: 'prometheus'
+  - job_name: 'mikrotik'
 
     # Override the global default and scrape targets from this job every 5 seconds.
     scrape_interval: 15s
@@ -31,4 +31,21 @@ scrape_configs:
          - targets:
             - 'mikrotik_exporter:9436'
             - 'mktxp:49090'
-            - 'smokeping:9374'
+  
+  - job_name: 'blackbox'
+    scrape_interval: 1s
+    metrics_path: /probe
+    params:
+      module: [icmp_ttl5]  # use ICMP as the ping protocol
+    static_configs:
+      - targets:
+        - 1.1.1.1
+        - 8.8.8.8
+        - 9.9.9.9
+    relabel_configs:
+      - source_labels: [__address__]
+        target_label: __param_target
+      - source_labels: [__param_target]
+        target_label: instance
+      - target_label: __address__
+        replacement: blackbox:9115  # The blackbox exporter's real hostname:port.

smokeping/smokeping.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-targets:
-- hosts:
-  - 1.1.1.1
-  - 8.8.8.8
-  - 9.9.9.9
-  interval: 10s   # Duration, Default 1s.
-  network: ip4    # One of ip, ip4, ip6. Default: ip (automatic IPv4/IPv6)
-  protocol: icmp   # One of icmp, udp. Default: icmp (Requires privileged operation)
-  size: 56        # Packet data size in bytes. Default 56 (Range: 24 - 65535)