Packages / prometheus-blackbox-exporter
APT repository · deb.freshdeb.com/prometheus-blackbox-exporterprinted 28 Oct 2026, 00:46 UTC
prometheus-blackbox-exporter
blackbox_exporter probes endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP and gRPC for Prometheus. One release line for Debian 12 and 13, Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 on amd64 and arm64.
latest 0.29.1github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporterupstream sourcepackaging
Componentmain
follows every upstream release, minors and majors included. Currently 0.29.1.
Not published yet. The first prometheus-blackbox-exporter release is being built. These commands will work once it lands at deb.freshdeb.com/prometheus-blackbox-exporter; the versions shown are the ones package.yaml will publish.
1Trust the signing key (once per machine)
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://deb.freshdeb.com/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
Fingerprint 3BBD F03A 9C0B F890 F8CA 9510 7595 CC55 468F 3161. How to verify.
2Add the source
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freshdeb-prometheus-blackbox-exporter.sources >/dev/null <<EOF
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.freshdeb.com/prometheus-blackbox-exporter
Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME)
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg
EOFWith auto, the shell reads the codename from /etc/os-release on the machine you paste this into.
3Install
sudo apt update && sudo apt install prometheus-blackbox-exporter
apt policy prometheus-blackbox-exporter # expect 0.29.1-1+freshdeb~…Before you upgrade from the distribution's prometheus-blackbox-exporter
The freshdeb version sorts higher, so apt upgrade moves you over in place. Configurations keep working, but since 0.29 a module with an unknown prober stops the exporter at startup. Check first with prometheus-blackbox-exporter --config.check --config.file=/etc/prometheus/blackbox.yml. The log format changed in 0.26, and probe logs are a separate logger since 0.28 (--log.prober=debug shows them all).
Compared with Debian's package
Debian's packaging decides where things go: package names, paths, users, services and how upgrades behave. The build follows upstream's own release builds wherever Debian's differs.
- Build
- Upstream's release build: pinned Go toolchain,
CGO_ENABLED=0, upstream's version stamps. Upstream's test suite gates the build. - Init script
- Fixed for systems without systemd. Debian's checked the configuration with
promtool, so it didn't start, andreloadcouldn't find the daemon. - Layout
- Debian's:
/etc/prometheus/blackbox.yml, the debconf question for ICMP probing (CAP_NET_RAW), systemd unit.
Packing list
Every release line of prometheus-blackbox-exporter and the distributions it's built for. Each line is its own APT component and only gets the releases it follows (main: every upstream release, minors and majors included). After upstream end of life it stops building but stays installable. Hatched cells have no build: usually that distribution already ships the same or a newer version itself.
| Line | Component | Current | bookwormDebian 12 | trixieDebian 13 | jammyUbuntu 22.04 | nobleUbuntu 24.04 | resoluteUbuntu 26.04 | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| main | main | 0.29.1 | built: 0.29.1-1 | built: 0.29.1-1 | built: 0.29.1-1 | built: 0.29.1-1 | built: 0.29.1-1 | – |
Versions follow <upstream>-<revision>+freshdeb~<distro>, distro being deb12, deb13, ubuntu22.04, ubuntu24.04 or ubuntu26.04, for amd64 and arm64. Published versions are never rebuilt or replaced.
Contents
- prometheus-blackbox-exporter
- blackbox prober for Prometheus
Origin
- Upstream
- github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporterrelease tags pinned to commit hashes
- Debian packaging
- salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/prometheus-blackbox-exporterimported unmodified at 73692de (0.28.0-2, unstable)
- Our changes
- overlays under
overlays/for bookworm, trixie, jammy, noble, resolute. - Built for
- bookworm, trixie, jammy, noble, resoluteamd64, arm64, built natively
- Notes
- packaging notes · package.yaml · report an issue
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