# 使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 cloudprober

查看 cloudprober 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:cloudprober
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cloudprober
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cloudprober
```

  证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/cloudprober/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:cloudprober
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 0.14.4
- **来源摘要:** Active monitoring software to detect failures before your customers do
- **主页:** <https://cloudprober.org>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/cloudprober/cloudprober>
- **最后更新:** 2026-07-27T18:04:30Z
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- cloudprober (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 0.14.4
## 项目历史与用法

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.

### 项目历史

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.

### 采用历史

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.

### 使用方式

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.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

### 时间线

- 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.

### 来源

- <https://cloudprober.org/>
- <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/03/cloudprober-open-source-black-box.html>
- <https://cloudprober.org/docs/about/>
- <https://cloudprober.org/docs/overview/probe/>
- <https://cloudprober.org/docs/overview/getting-started/>
- <https://github.com/cloudprober/helm-charts>
- <https://github.com/cloudprober/cloudprober/releases>


## 安全说明

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger 风险:** orange / 中
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## 其他软件包管理器记录

- 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


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cloudprober.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cloudprober.yml)


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph