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
>>>
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