diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 5d090b31f2f1d9dbbf27ade3fa7b10171ff959fa..b2d57046f025abe47abac39d8b5fdd486bebba03 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ render_levant:
         - logs
         - grafana-lofar
         - metrics
+        - monitoring
         - tracing
   script:
     - |
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ deploy-levant:
           - logs
           - grafana-lofar
           - metrics
+          - monitoring
           - tracing
   environment:
     name: ${SERVER}.control.lofar
diff --git a/infra/logs-central.levant.nomad b/infra/logs-central.levant.nomad
index a3b2d5b88c4c46d04db7ab8507c4b7cf8db8d838..ed63563080dd625c28e413e8998b363e9b70d039 100644
--- a/infra/logs-central.levant.nomad
+++ b/infra/logs-central.levant.nomad
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ job "logs" {
               region: NL
 
         limits_config:
+          allow_structured_metadata: false
           ingestion_rate_mb: 100
           ingestion_burst_size_mb: 1000
 
@@ -78,8 +79,7 @@ job "logs" {
               object_store: s3
               schema: v12
               store: tsdb
-          configs:
-            - from: "2025-01-09"
+            - from: "2025-01-11"
               index:
                 period: 24h
                 prefix: index_
diff --git a/infra/metrics-central.levant.nomad b/infra/metrics-central.levant.nomad
index 8ce4869ea1372e9e0e6721d918895f591bafcd85..0a7230eda71d9ba3b62a824d529b7d8bc38ffd65 100644
--- a/infra/metrics-central.levant.nomad
+++ b/infra/metrics-central.levant.nomad
@@ -73,6 +73,28 @@ job "metrics" {
           - job_name: 'lta_ingest_transfer_service'
             static_configs:
               - targets: ['lexar003.control.lofar:8001']
+          - job_name: 'blackbox'
+            params:
+              module:
+              - http_2xx
+            metrics_path: '/probe'
+            static_configs:
+            - targets:
+              - vault.lofar.net
+              - s3.lofar.net
+              - tmss.lofar.eu
+              - lta.lofar.eu
+              - git.astron.nl
+            {{range services}}{{if in .Tags "cert"}}{{ if .Name | regexMatch "(.+)-sidecar-proxy$" }}{{ else }}
+              - '{{.Name}}.lofar.net'
+            {{end}}{{end}}{{end}}
+            relabel_configs:
+              - source_labels: [__address__]
+                target_label: __param_target
+              - source_labels: [__param_target]
+                target_label: instance
+              - target_label: __address__
+                replacement: 'blackbox.service.consul:9115'
           - job_name: 'consul'
             metrics_path: '/v1/agent/metrics'
             params:
@@ -80,6 +102,9 @@ job "metrics" {
             static_configs:
               - targets: ['consul.service.consul:8500']
           - job_name: 'nomad'
+            metrics_path: '/v1/metrics'
+            params:
+              format: ['prometheus']
             consul_sd_configs:
             - server: 'consul.service.consul:8500'
               services: ['nomad']
@@ -191,7 +216,6 @@ job "metrics" {
           skip_label_name_validation_header_enabled: true
 
         limits:
-          max_global_series_per_user: 2000000
           max_label_value_length: 100000
           max_label_name_length: 100000
           ingestion_rate: 100000
diff --git a/infra/monitoring-central.levant.nomad b/infra/monitoring-central.levant.nomad
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd5d597e4b7b39ff11e4b68c71784c6bcfeca382
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infra/monitoring-central.levant.nomad
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+job "monitoring" {
+  datacenters = ["nl-north"]
+  type        = "service"
+  namespace   = "observability"
+
+  # blackbox monitors http/https/tcp endpoints
+  group "blackbox" {
+    count = 1
+
+    network {
+      port "http" {
+        to     = 9115
+        static = 9115
+      }
+    }
+
+    service {
+      tags = ["scrape"]
+      name = "blackbox"
+      task = "blackbox"
+      port = "http"
+    }
+
+    task "blackbox-exporter" {
+      driver = "docker"
+
+      config {
+        image   = "quay.io/prometheus/blackbox-exporter:latest"
+        ports   = ["http"]
+      }
+      resources {
+        cpu    = 100
+        memory = 100
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}