SmokePing VS ipapi

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

ipapi Reviews

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

ipapi mentions (20)

• 20 Free Api For Your Next Project

  IPapi - Service that provides you an info about an IP address. - Source: dev.to / 26 days ago

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

  Ipapi - IP Address Location API by Kloudend, Inc - A reliable geolocation API built on AWS, trusted by Fortune 500. The free tier offers 30k lookups/month (1k/day) without signup. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Lookout! VPN Brute Force Attempts from 109.206.242.48

  Yeah still confused as to where you are getting https://www.criminalip.io/en and https://ipapi.co/ from iplocation.net (which I use all the time to also get GEO-IP location). Source: 12 months ago

• Lookout! VPN Brute Force Attempts from 109.206.242.48

  I would suggest reaching out to this company https://www.criminalip.io/en as well as this company. https://ipapi.co/. Source: 12 months ago

• App suddenly started returning 404 not found after I allowed some firewall permission

  Import requests From flask import Flask, request, jsonify App = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/api', methods = ['Get']) Def index(): d = {} inputpro = str(request.args['query']) url = f'https://ipapi.co/{inputpro}/json/' r = requests.get(url) t = r.json() y= t['country_name'] d['output'] = y return d If __name__== '__main__': app.run(). Source: about 1 year ago