From 6e5fd2daee2b08ebb4e8a28839d5694025ea96ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rushmore75 <oliveratkinsoneng@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:40:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] this might work, idk i just making things up

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 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34d7846..fa8a397 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,3 +18,18 @@ unit="F", computer="computer5"
 
 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
+}
+
+```
+
+