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 From here you could then redirect stdout into a file, then host the file with something like Caddy for Prometheus to scrape.
 
+## Examples
+
+A simple "down detector"
+```bash
+cat metadata | generate_metrics cloudflare $(ping -c 1 1.1.1.1 &> /dev/null ; echo $?) > /srv/metrics/cloudflare
+```
+
+```caddyfile
+metics.*:80 {
+	fileserver /srv/metrics/cloudflare
+}
+
+```
+
+