google/cloudprober
[Moved to cloudprober/cloudprober] An active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3380
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1770
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1395 stars · 147 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cloudprober is an open-source active (synthetic) monitoring tool built at Google that runs continuous probes—HTTP, gRPC, DNS, PING, TCP, UDP, browser, and script-based—against your services to detect failures before users notice. It compiles to a single Go binary, supports dynamic target discovery from Kubernetes and GCP, and exports metrics to Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, and other backends with optional alerting.
Use cases
- run blackbox synthetic monitoring for websites and APIs
- probe HTTP endpoints and alert on failures before customers notice
- monitor DNS resolution, TCP reachability, and packet loss
- auto-discover and probe Kubernetes or GCP targets
- export probe latency and success metrics to Prometheus or Grafana
- replace Prometheus Blackbox Exporter with a more extensible prober
- run lightweight uptime checks from a Raspberry Pi or homelab
When to choose
- you need outside-in synthetic monitoring that measures what users actually experience
- you want a single self-contained binary with no agents to deploy
- you need built-in probes across many protocols (HTTP, gRPC, DNS, PING, TCP, UDP, browser) in one config
- your targets change dynamically and you want auto-discovery from Kubernetes or GCP
- you need to export metrics to multiple monitoring systems simultaneously
When to avoid
- you only need passive monitoring of logs and application-internal metrics
- you want a full metrics scraping and storage system rather than a prober
- you require a GUI-driven monitoring product rather than config-file-driven probing
- you need Windows-native installation via the install script (script supports Linux/macOS only, though binaries exist)
Facets
service · maturity stable
monitoring alerting http-client monitoring networking cloud-computing self-hosted windows go cli self-hosted synthetic-monitoring blackbox-probing active-monitoring prometheus single-binary sre observability kubernetes-targets grpc-probe dns-probe devops linux macos docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/google/cloudprober · fetched 2026-08-28 · 017f4a322b18
- homepage: https://cloudprober.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · bdb8a0ba8f99
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/overview/cloudprober · fetched 2026-08-29 · e05ef3ab9304
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/overview/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 01259542cb81
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/overview/probe · fetched 2026-08-29 · b4a407aa2317
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/config/latest/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · f51153fac6fd
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/config/guide · fetched 2026-08-29 · beb9408d4131
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/config/probe-options · fetched 2026-08-29 · a1d9803c0c78
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/how-to/list · fetched 2026-08-29 · a6d72af1168b
- site_page: https://cloudprober.org/docs/surfacers/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · cc9f60710553
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| google/cloudprober | main | 10 |
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