SmokePing VS Pingdom

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

Pingdom 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: almost 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

Pingdom mentions (3)

• Router vs. Modem - Random internet drops - how to determine culprit?

  So the way I troubleshoot which one is losing connection is by setting up 2 ping monitors with pingdom.com. Source: over 2 years ago

• Stumped by some odd results using Salesforce's /speedtest.jsp

  Basically, I'm getting results like these on average: https://imgur.com/X7RV1LH from running Salesforce's speedtest tool. It's a pretty new computer, brand new job for me (though I experienced this in an old job as well) so I don't have a great baseline. As you can see, everything is good except the download speeds. I've checked my speeds on fast.com and tested my google mesh wifi from directly within the Google... Source: over 2 years ago

• Sorrento Website has so much traffic its failing to load

  A lot of websites worldwide went down in the last hour. 30k websites according to pingdom.com the number has been slowly going back down. Source: almost 3 years ago