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Highlight the existence of the /metrics endpoint #1117

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Expand Up @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ will return metrics for a HTTP probe against google.com. The `probe_success`
metric indicates if the probe succeeded. Adding a `debug=true` parameter
will return debug information for that probe.

Metrics concerning the operation of the exporter itself are available at the
endpoint <http://localhost:9115/metrics>.

### TLS and basic authentication

The Blackbox Exporter supports TLS and basic authentication. This enables better
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target_label: instance
- target_label: __address__
replacement: 127.0.0.1:9115 # The blackbox exporter's real hostname:port.
- job_name: 'blackbox_exporter' # collect blackbox exporter's operational metrics.
static_configs:
- targets: ['127.0.0.1:9115']
```

HTTP probes can accept an additional `hostname` parameter that will set `Host` header and TLS SNI. This can be especially useful with `dns_sd_config`:
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