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

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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: 12 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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

BugMeNot mentions (32)

• Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login sharing for the masses

  How does this compare to BugMeNot [1]? [1]: https://bugmenot.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Have you used any AI programmes to aid with your own Etsy shop?

  Well, there's always https://bugmenot.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a sub for bypassing the requirement to have an account for websites?

  Finally, you may be able to find shared login credentials through a site like BugMeNot, though that one's not super reliable these days. Source: about 1 year ago

• I don’t want to log in to your website

  Edit: oh apparently it still exists, https://bugmenot.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Forcing users to sign up with an email to use basic features is complete bs

  All spammers have to do is remove the . And everything after it. Better to use something like mailinator or bugmenot. Source: over 1 year ago