Thanks for sharing, @BlueSeaOcean! That's interesting. I guess in your probe you must be building a SAML assertion and posting to an HTTP endpoint. I've thought about implementing this in cloudprober as my current employer had similar requirements, but I was not sure if it was a common use case. I'll think more about it now :)

Are you using Cloudprober at work? If yes, and if it's okay, can you please share your organization's name.

One thing to add, I am also using proxy probe although it is not used as much as http probe at the moment. I imagine supporting authentication would be a common use case. For example, you may want to probe internal jira not only to check if the jira instance is up and running, sometimes you also want to check if your account still have access to it.

Yes, I am using at work. I'm not sure if I am supposed to disclose the name. It's an investment bank.

I imagine supporting authentication would be a common use case. For example, you may want to probe internal jira not only to check if the jira instance is up and running, sometimes you also want to check if your account still have access to it.

I agree. I wonder if you know about the OAuth based authentication option for HTTP probes: https://cloudprober.org/docs/config/oauth/. Basically you can add oauth_config stanza to an HTTP probe to do OAuth based authentication. It can be used to get a new access token using username-password, or a refresh token issued previously. Quite a few API based services support OAuth based authentication now, e.g. Google, Robinhood, Meta, etc. I should probably write a how-to page on how to use OAuth authentication with HTTP probes.

Yes, I am using at work. I'm not sure if I am supposed to disclose the name. It's an investment bank.

No worries. Thanks for sharing the industry.

I didn't know that and I also built oauth authentication in the extension too! Let me know if you have the document ready.