ipstack Reviews

SmokePing Reviews

1. Stan

   | Founder at SaaSHub | almost 2 years ago
   Such a helpful tool

   Smokeping used to be one of my favourity tools when I was working as a SysAdmin long time ago. It's offers such a clever way of presenting the data, that it is super easy to identify any issues.

   I still wonder why modern tools haven't adopted this ingenious technique.

   👍 Pros:    Usability

   👎 Cons:    Not actively maintained

ipstack mentions (25)

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Ipstack - Locate and identify Website Visitors by IP Address. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Discover the World with ipstack's Geo Lookup API - Free Geo IP API!

  Looking to enhance your website or application with location-based services? Look no further! ipstack's Geo Lookup API is the perfect solution for seamless and accurate geolocation data retrieval. With this Free Geo IP API, you can easily obtain vital information about your users or customers, such as their country, city, latitude, longitude, time zone, and more. ipstack's API is renowned for its reliability and... Source: 10 months ago

• Office 365 email account with 2FA - Hacked.

  Not really their fault. I think they mostly use https://ipstack.com/ for IP Geolocation API - their support is not the best when it comes to updating IP info. Source: 11 months ago

• Google Misclassifying Location of Public IP Address

  I had to contact https://ipstack.com/ / http://co.apilayer.net/ 5 or 6 times until they corrected the database, and Azure Sign-in logs started showing the correct details. Source: over 1 year ago

• Language on websites

  There's even a free API: https://ipstack.com/ Does seem to be less accurate than the source mylocation.org uses, as ipstack seems to think my ipv6 address is in Mons, while mylocation sees my ipv4 address as Leuven-area (which is correct). Source: over 1 year ago

SmokePing mentions (27)

• Anyone else using unifi to track the isp outages?

  I'd recommend setting up SmokePing or Vaping to get a better idea of latency and connectivity. Source: 11 months ago

• N-Central, Connectivity Service and 15 minute minimums, oh my!

  Let me introduce you to a rather old, but still highly useful, tool for free. Takes a little leg work to get going, but pays off in style. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: 12 months ago

• Is there any way to fix packet loss!?

  So I would run Smoke Ping (https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) for a while to get an idea of the loss. If it really is an external issue, you can try a VPN to hopefully pickup a different route. Source: 12 months ago

• lightweight monitoring tool

  I personally like smokeping, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ . Has lots of different probes so you can do more than just "ping if it is alive". Source: about 1 year ago

• Cox Monitoring -- something changed around 9:30 last night

  I previously made a post asking for some ping results for various people in the area. Thank you to everyone who replied. Some of the comments encouraged me to set up a more proper monitoring system for keeping track of latencies to various servers, and to consider more than just ICMP ping as said packets are likely deprioritized. I set up an instance of SmokePing and have it monitoring a number of services, as... Source: about 1 year ago