Install easeprobe with Homebrew, Nix

Project links

• Homepage
• Upstream docs
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• easeprobe

Project history

The official repository was created in February 2022. Its README defines the project around three jobs: probing services, sending notifications, and reporting status or metrics.

EaseProbe's scope expanded from simple HTTP/TCP checks into a broad probe catalog covering HTTP, TCP, ping, shell, SSH, TLS, host checks, and native clients for systems such as MySQL, Redis, Memcache, MongoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and ZooKeeper. The release history shows a 2.0 line by late 2022 and a 2.3 line by 2025.

Adoption history

The project is distributed through GitHub releases, Docker images, source builds, and Homebrew. Its adoption signal is strongest inside the MegaEase/open-source operations niche rather than as a universal monitoring standard.

Homebrew packages release tarballs from the official GitHub repository, making EaseProbe a normal `brew install easeprobe` tool for users who want a small status checker without deploying a larger monitoring stack first.

How it is used

A typical setup creates a YAML config, then runs `easeprobe -f config.yaml` or points the `PROBE_CONFIG` environment variable at one or more config files. The README's sample config checks an HTTP URL, writes notifications to a log file, and sets global timeout and probe interval settings.

EaseProbe can be run as a local binary, Docker container, systemd service, Docker Compose deployment, or Kubernetes deployment. It also exposes live SLA output and Prometheus metrics on its built-in report server.

Why package nerds care

EaseProbe is package-nerd-interesting because it sits between a shell script health check and a full monitoring platform. The appeal is one statically built Go CLI plus a YAML file, with enough output and notification integrations to be useful in small deployments.

Its broad probe matrix also makes it a handy example of the modern Go ops binary: single executable, Docker image, Helm/Kubernetes path, Homebrew formula, and documentation colocated in the GitHub repo.

Timeline

• 2022-02: The official GitHub repository was created.
• 2022-12: GitHub releases show EaseProbe 2.0.0.
• 2023-03: GitHub releases include EaseProbe Helm chart artifacts.
• 2025-05: GitHub releases show EaseProbe 2.3.0, the version packaged by Homebrew at review time.

Related projects

• MegaEase is the project organization behind EaseProbe.
• Prometheus is a related metrics consumer supported by EaseProbe's exporter endpoint.
• Kubernetes and Helm are related deployment surfaces documented by the project.
• Classic monitoring systems such as Nagios-style checks are conceptually adjacent, although the official sources frame EaseProbe as a simple standalone checker.

Sources

• https://github.com/megaease/easeprobe
• https://github.com/megaease/easeprobe/tree/main/docs
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/easeprobe.json