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Prometheus & Exporter Quick Reference

A quick reference of reload endpoints, health checks, and blackbox probe testing.

🔄 Live Configuration Reload

Prometheus and Alertmanager support live configuration reloading without restarting pods:

# Reload Prometheus configuration
curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/-/reload

# Reload Alertmanager configuration
curl -X POST http://localhost:9093/-/reload

🎯 Testing Blackbox Exporter Manually

# Probe an HTTP endpoint directly through Blackbox Exporter
curl "http://localhost:9115/probe?target=https://vettom.pages.dev&module=http_2xx"