Docs feedback: How to use prometheus.operator.probes

[enneitex]

URL

https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/prometheus/prometheus.operator.probes/#example

Feedback

Hi,

I'm trying to add the prometheus.operator.probes component on my alloy instance but I don't get what my Probe should look like.
As I understand, alloy acts as the blackbox exporter so I don't need to deploy it in addition to alloy. (prometheus.exporter.blackbox i working well)

something like this should work or is spec.prober.url required ? If so, is it localhost:12345 ?

apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: Probe
metadata:
  name: probe-crd
spec:
  interval: 10s
  module: http_2xx
  targets:
    staticConfig:
      static:
        - https://grafana.com

When adding url: localhost:12345 I get en error: level=debug msg="Append failed" component_path=/ component_id=prometheus.operator.probes.default scrape_pool=probe/kube-monitoring/probe-crd target="http://localhost:12345/probe?module=http_2xx&target=https%3A%2F%2Fgrafana.com" err="expected a valid start token, got \"<\" (\"INVALID\") while parsing: \"<\"" because this is the UI port I guess

Is it possible to share a working example with a Probe ?

Does an extra Port need to be exposed in alloy container ? Or a dedicated blackbox-exporter pod is required ?