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The new version v2.7.1-11 of the Prometheus Global Stack was just released. This version contains the following highlights:

• The Blackbox-Exporter is included again, to be an integral part of a global monitoring solution
• Configuration file for Blackbbox-Exporter is located on a persistent volume and can be adjusted to individual needs
• prom-conf helper container now includes some useful editors like nano and vim to edit the config files more convenient
• Some other improvements, see Readme file

Before upgrading existing stacks, customers must check if a Blackbox-Exporter service has already been integrated manually.  If this is the case, then please note:

• If the existing exporter has been named "blackbox-exporter", then it would be overwritten by the catalog update.
• If the existing exporter has a different name, then a second exporter would be installed into the stack during upgrade. Migrate your existing config (see next point) and change the hostname for the exporter in Prometheus config to "blackbox-exporter:9115". Afterwards manually delete the old exporter from the stack.
• An already existing adapted persistent config file wouldn't be overwritten during the update. But the new exporter from the update would use the config file under /etc/prom-conf/blackbox.yml within the blackbox container. Thus ensure, that your existing adapted config file is moved to /etc/prom-conf/blackbox.yml within the blackbox container.

If there are any questions, please contact the DevOps-as-a-Service support via Service Desk.

We would also like to refer to the renewed Monitoring Documentation.