# Install cloudprober with Homebrew, Nix Active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do. Version 0.14.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-04-23. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:cloudprober ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install cloudprober ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#cloudprober ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/cloudprober/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:cloudprober - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.14.3 - **Source summary:** Active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-04-23T23:13:24Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - cloudprober (cli) - cloudprober (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.14.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-04-23 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/cloudprober/cloudprober - Upstream latest detected: v0.14.3 (current) ## Project history and usage Cloudprober is an open-source active monitoring and probing system originally built at Google. It runs scheduled probes against services and infrastructure, exports metrics, and helps operators detect user-visible failures before customers report them. ### Project history Google's Open Source Blog described Cloudprober in March 2018 as black-box monitoring software that Google had open sourced the previous year. The project focused on probing systems and services from the outside and producing metrics from those probe results rather than relying only on internal application telemetry. Cloudprober's own about page says its original goal was discovering and alerting on Cloud Networking availability and performance problems, but that it was developed as a generic prober for many kinds of systems and services. The current project site carries that lineage forward with the tagline that it is open-source active monitoring built at Google and able to run from small devices to large fleets. ### Adoption history Cloudprober's adoption is strongest among operators who want self-hosted active or synthetic monitoring with Prometheus-style metrics and low deployment assumptions. Official materials mention production use and the Cloudprober Helm chart documents Kubernetes installation through GitHub Container Registry, while Homebrew and Nix packaging make the standalone binary convenient on developer and operator machines. ### How it is used Users configure Cloudprober to run HTTP, DNS, ping, TCP, UDP, browser, external, and other probes on a schedule, then consume the emitted metrics and alerts in their monitoring stack. The getting-started docs also note that running cloudprober with no arguments on Linux exposes a built-in sys_metrics probe at a local metrics endpoint. ### Why package nerds care Cloudprober is package-nerd interesting because it is infrastructure software that stays useful as a single CLI/server binary: one package can serve laptop experiments, Raspberry Pi checks, Kubernetes deployments, and fleet monitoring. Its packaging also bridges old-school daemon-style monitoring and modern cloud-native distribution, with Homebrew/Nix formulae and an official Helm chart. ### Timeline - 2017: Google open sourced Cloudprober, according to Google's 2018 announcement. - 2018: Google Open Source Blog introduced Cloudprober publicly as black-box monitoring software. - 2023: Cloudprober docs described the project's origins in Cloud Networking availability and performance monitoring. - 2026: Cloudprober 0.14.x releases added web UI logging and run-once support across probe types. ### Related projects - Cloudprober overlaps with black-box and synthetic monitoring tools, especially Prometheus Blackbox Exporter-style checks, hosted uptime services, and Kubernetes monitoring stacks. Its official Helm chart is the closest related packaging project, while its metrics output is commonly consumed by broader observability systems. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** cloudprober - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - cloudprober: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/cloudprober/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [darkstat](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/darkstat/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [dish](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dish/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [dnstop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dnstop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [easeprobe](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/easeprobe/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [heartbeat](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/heartbeat/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking, observability. - [httping](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/httping/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [httptap](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/httptap/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [mrtg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mrtg/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [ntopng](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ntopng/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, monitoring, network, networking, observability. - [packetbeat](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/packetbeat/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, monitoring, network, networking, observability. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cloudprober.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/cloudprober.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph