Synthetic monitoring,
built for speed.
A lightweight, OpenTelemetry-native monitoring agent written in Rust. One config file. Zero overhead.
Why Zookoo?
Stop juggling Prometheus relabeling rules
just to monitor a single endpoint.
Zookoo is a Blackbox Exporter alternative built for teams who want simplicity, performance, and full control over their observability pipeline.
Single binary, zero dependencies
Deploy anywhere in seconds. No runtime, no agent manager, no overhead.
Rust performance
Predictable resource usage with minimal CPU and memory footprint under load.
Flexible exporters
Send data to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus Remote Write, or TimescaleDB — your choice.
Rust-powered
Blazing fast, low footprint. Built for performance-critical environments.
OpenTelemetry native
Export metrics anywhere. Fully compliant with the OTEL standard.
Grafana-ready
Visualize in seconds. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Grafana dashboards.
Observability
Explore your metrics on your favorite platform.
Get alerted when something's wrong.
Zookoo ships metrics directly into your observability stack. Visualize latency, availability, and error rates in Grafana, and set up alerts so your team knows before your users do.
HTTP probe
Response time
Avg latency
42 ms
Uptime
99.98%
Checks / min
2
Alert rule triggered
Latency exceeded 500ms threshold on eu-west-1
Configuration
One file.
Everything configured.
- Define probes, exporters, and discovery in one place
- Assign custom labels and scrape intervals per target
- Load targets dynamically from a JSON file or API
defaults {
log_level = "info"
probe_zone = "eu-west-1"
service_name = "zookoo"
probe_location {
latitude = 48.858370
longitude = 2.29448
}
}
probe "http" "google_check" {
scrape_interval = "30s"
targets = [
{
url = "https://www.google.com"
method = "GET"
expected_status_code = 200
labels = {
service = "google"
env = "prod"
}
}
]
forward_to = [exporter.otlp.default]
}
exporter "otlp" "default" {
url = "http://localhost:4317"
tls_insecure = true
}