Just judging from the Prometheus config above, Prometheus was scraping the 401 status code targets directly, vs. probing them through the blackbox exporter, since the necessary relabeling rules ( https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter#prometheus-configuration) for that were missing.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:27 PM Rupendra Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you provide the solution? > > On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 02:55:01 UTC+5:30 srikanth rangan wrote: > >> I got it to work finally. >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:18 PM srikanth rangan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a case wherein I have to poll a target and its normal for the >>> site to send me "401" code. >>> However, when I add the entries in prometheus.yml and a new module in >>> blackbox_exporter.yml, prometheus does not like the 401 error and does not >>> seem to use the blackbox_exporter at all. (I've started the blackbox on >>> debug, on command line and its not printing anything) >>> >>> */etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml :* >>> *.....* >>> - job_name: 'IDAHO_SERVICE_SVN_AND' >>> metrics_path: /svn/idaho-config/PROD >>> scrape_interval: 10s >>> params: >>> module: [http_401_unauth] >>> static_configs: >>> - targets: ['10.131.104.193'] >>> labels: >>> group: 'IDAHO_SERVICE' >>> service: 'IDAHO_SERVICE_SVN_AND' >>> >>> */etc/blackbox_exporter/blackbox_exporter.yml:* >>> *...* >>> modules: >>> >>> http_401_unauth: >>> prober: http >>> http: >>> valid_status_codes: [401,200,409] >>> >>> >>> >>> The error that I'm getting is :*server returned HTTP status 401 >>> Unauthorized * >>> It looks like Prometheus is reporting the 401 error even before asking >>> blackbox_exporter to probe it? >>> Can anyone please help me understand the error ? >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> [image: Capture.PNG] >>> >>> Regards >>> Srikanth >>> >>> -- >>> 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/9dd229c9-0171-4b64-9998-8a57cc27b92an%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9dd229c9-0171-4b64-9998-8a57cc27b92an%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/f551b711-a52d-419c-9fe9-d1f86c6d1a3dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/f551b711-a52d-419c-9fe9-d1f86c6d1a3dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Julius Volz PromLabs - promlabs.com -- 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/CAObpH5xGiZD6GJUnR7CrrNJJNxCC%2BiCRvh%2B-OSx-5k2B4Sejgw%40mail.gmail.com.

