# Install easeprobe with Homebrew, Nix Simple, standalone, and lightWeight tool that can do health/status checking. Version 2.3.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#easeprobe. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:easeprobe ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install easeprobe ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#easeprobe ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ea/easeprobe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:easeprobe - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 2.3.0 - **Source summary:** Simple, standalone, and lightWeight tool that can do health/status checking - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T04:11:36+02:00 - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - easeprobe (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 2.3.0 ## Project history and usage EaseProbe is MegaEase's Go-based standalone health/status checking tool. It packages probes, notifications, SLA reporting, Prometheus metrics, and deployment examples into a single `easeprobe` binary configured by YAML. ### 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 - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: $CWD/config.yaml ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - easeprobe: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ea/easeprobe/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/easeprobe.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/easeprobe.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph