Blackbox Monitoring: Synthetic Checks That Catch What Metrics Miss
Use the Prometheus blackbox exporter and synthetic checks to test services from the outside: HTTP, TLS, DNS and TCP probes, multi-step journeys, alert rules and pitfalls.
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Infra.FuryBee is an English article library about running software. Categories are Cloud Platforms, Containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Monitoring and Configuration Management.
Many articles come from running FuryBee itself: putting Cloudflare in front of an origin, choosing between Traefik, Nginx and Caddy, zero-downtime deploys without Kubernetes, and backing up a self-hosted Postgres. Others cover Pulumi versus Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, eBPF and Prometheus alerting.
Cloud Platforms, Containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Monitoring and Configuration Management.
A Terraform module starter, GitHub Actions templates, an Ansible role skeleton, a Docker Compose dev stack and a Kubernetes manifest generator.
Articles cover AWS, GCP and Azure, plus self-hosting on a single server.
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Use the Prometheus blackbox exporter and synthetic checks to test services from the outside: HTTP, TLS, DNS and TCP probes, multi-step journeys, alert rules and pitfalls.
When self-hosted GitHub Actions runners make sense, how to isolate jobs with ephemeral runners, why public repositories are risky, and how to scale and secure a runner fleet.
What HEALTHCHECK and restart policies really do in Docker and Compose: states, timing, depends_on, and the gaps where an unhealthy container is never restarted.
How ACME issuance works, when to pick DNS-01 over HTTP-01, how to wire it up with Traefik, Caddy and certbot, and how to monitor the renewal failures that stay silent.
AWS most often, then GCP and Azure. Several articles are about self-hosting on one server behind Cloudflare.
Yes, five: a Terraform module starter, GitHub Actions templates, an Ansible role skeleton, a Docker Compose dev stack and a Kubernetes manifest generator.
There were 71 articles in 6 categories in October 2026.
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