SmokePing VS Site24x7

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

Site24x7 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

Site24x7 mentions (5)

• Seeking opinions on on-call alerting (SMS, phone call) SaaS products

  Check out site24x7.com and their statusiq.com page which fully integrates. Source: 11 months ago

• Simple NOC Monitoring Solution

  You can do all of this with site24x7.com as well, they should start paying me for referrals.. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can't log add cert to nginx

  But when I go to site24x7.com, and check my domain, it works fine. It shows the correct IP addresses from all countries. Using Cloudfare, un-proxied DNS. One "A" record that points to my IP address. Source: over 1 year ago

• AdGuard Home DoH - Certificate chain is invalid - Your certificate does not verify: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

  "Failed to check the reachability due to a communication error with site24x7.com.". Source: over 1 year ago

• Recommendations for testing services that will email me if a web app goes down

  Site24x7.com isn't overly cheap, but has served us well over the years. Source: almost 2 years ago