SmokePing VS ipinfo.io

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

ipinfo.io 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: 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

ipinfo.io mentions (210)

• Fetch Geo Data from any IP Address in React

  You need an access token from ipinfo to access their API. Go to ipinfo.io and sign up for an account. After signing up, you'll get an access token. Keep it handy as we'll need it in the next step. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Prodzilla: From Zero to Prod with Rust and Shuttle

  Stories: - name: get-ip-info steps: - name: get-ip url: https://api.ipify.org/?format=json http_method: GET - name: get-location url: https://ipinfo.io/${{steps.get-ip.response.body.ip}}/geo http_method: GET expectations: - field: Body operation: Contains value: "Australia" schedule: initial_delay: 10 ... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

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

  IPinfo — Fast, accurate, and free (up to 50k/month) IP address data API. Offers APIs with details on geolocation, companies, carriers, IP ranges, domains, abuse contacts, and more. All paid APIs can be trialed for free. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Live proxy and VPN detection

  Mullvad VPN location set to Frankfurt germany Using the us east test server: Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy VPN Score: 0/55 - Very likely not a VPN Using german test server: Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy VPN Score: 30/55 - Very likely a VPN The thing that changed between both tests was the flow latencies vs ping latencies check. Clicking on more info it said: "flow variance too... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Please help me to setup nordvpn on my router

  If it's a work computer it may be connecting to it's own VPN automatically. If you go to a site like https://ipinfo.io/ do you recognize the external IP address, region, and org? Source: 5 months ago