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Blackbox Exporter in one click.

Blackbox Exporter is a probes http, https, dns, tcp, icmp endpoints you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Blackbox Exporter?

Blackbox Exporter is a Prometheus exporter that actively probes endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, and ICMP. It reports metrics including response time, status codes, and SSL certificate expiry.

CategoryMonitoring
Default port9115
Container imageprom/blackbox-exporter:v0.25.0

Run Blackbox Exporter in Even

Even Stacks launches Blackbox Exporter as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Blackbox Exporter in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 9115, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://blackbox-exporter.localhost.

Drive Blackbox Exporter with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Blackbox Exporter directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can open its dashboards in the browser pane, read the metrics, and set up alerts. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Blackbox Exporter and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: No web UI. Probe any target via GET http://localhost:9115/probe?target={url}&module={module}. Available modules (http_2xx, tcp_connect, dns, etc.) are defined in /etc/blackbox_exporter/config.yml. Results are returned in Prometheus text format.

More Monitoring services

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