Net Uptime Monitor VS SmokePing

Net Uptime Monitor 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

Net Uptime Monitor mentions (17)

• Internet on one device drops for 7 seconds intermittently

  I bought a license for NetUptimeMonitor, which after multiple full days of running did not identify any failures even when they did occur with the program open. This was the case even with the strictest settings (test interval of 2 seconds & log failures if longer than 2 seconds). Source: 10 months ago

• More RCN/Astound woes. Anyone else?

  I would set up this https://netuptimemonitor.com and see what data you can gather (frequency of disconnects, time, etc.) and get a tech out. There has to be a problem somewhere, my RCN has been rock solid for a long time (about 10 years). Source: almost 1 year ago

• How can I monitor my network connection health?

  You on cable or what? You could use https://netuptimemonitor.com/, but the free version is quite limited. Source: about 1 year ago

• Internet goes out every day at 4:15pm

  Use something like https://netuptimemonitor.com/ to keep a log of all your outages. Run it for a few weeks, collect a history of the outages. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone know a software that records when and how long the wifi disconnects?

  Https://netuptimemonitor.com/ this is $10 and works pretty well. Source: about 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: 10 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: 11 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: 11 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