SmokePing Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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: 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

• Starlink V2 Satellites in Trouble

  You misspelled RRDTools. And it took absolute ages for industry to get to the level where those graphs could be recreated easily in something else. Even now it's pretty hard to recreate something like what https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ does with it. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• I demand a COMPETENT Technician to fix this atrocity that is my Demarc. I'm assuming this is why I've had extremely unreliable service since I moved in here. I am DONE rebooting my modem for the call center robot.

  I use smokeping to find internet issues. It is free and open source. Https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ Https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-smokeping. Source: about 1 year ago

• Spectrum Internet outages in Madison

  Old tech, but useful. You can even get it in a Docker container. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Request: A Mac app/utility that constantly checks the health of your internet connection and keeps statistics on that.

  SmokePing is an open source latency tracker that's been around for a while. It can ping and track latency on multiple targets 24x7 and graph the results. Source: over 1 year ago

• Slow Internet/Huge Latency during the evenings

  I run those speed tests (Xfinity told me to use their speedtest here since it allegedly is stored to your account for them to review) and take screenshots of the results. I also installed a ping tool called SmokePing as a docker on one of my machines and have it setup to ping several internal machines, such as two desktops, my pi-holes, and my modem and router. Source: over 1 year ago

• Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency

  Smokeping sounds like a comparable product - https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ Very useful for diagnosing ISP service interruptions. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Raspberry Pi Unattended Monitor?

  I use RPis running SmokePing for just this purpose when clients complain about wireless connectivity and internet outages. Source: over 1 year ago

• Self Host solution to pinging devices and draw latency on chart

  There is https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ which does this. Although it's not really integrated with Home Automation, but a standalone tool. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why some of us a have an 2-4 minute outage every hour or so (maybe) & how you can (hopefully) help get it fixed

  I’ve been using SmokePing to collect latency and packet loss data to a number of IPv4 and IPv6 hosts. These graphs can be readily compared to demonstrate the behavior I’m describing. Sample domain Ping Data IPv4 Google and IPv6 Google. Source: over 1 year ago

• Internet keeps dropping throughout the day every day for about the past week. I contacted T-Mobile, but they were no help. I have no idea what I need to do to better my numbers…

  Syracuse here. Same deal. Started Tuesday the 20th for us. I've had SmokePing running since the 22nd or so, makes for somewhat grim viewing (in the 3 and 5 day graphs anything that's purple or red is an outage). The modem isn't rebooting, its not hot, nothing has changed here. The way the outages cycle make me think this is a back-end configuration issue at TMob. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to constantly measure and log home internet quality?

  Smokeping is a great tool for measuring variations of latency and packet loss. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Notification system that sends notifications when certain sites are down

  I use SmokePing to run a constant ping on roughly 80 devices. If rtt, latency or loss meets a specific threshold it sends me an email. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a program I can use to just speed test and log?

  Sign up for a Sam Knows box, they are free Or you can use Smoke Ping https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• ask /r/selfhosted: what tools do you use to monitor your isp uplink?

  Smokeping if you want something light and simple https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Stories of users that you actually like, or were surprised ?

  In my experience, IT can be made to work real well and if some extra minimalist tools are setup for users to diagnose unpreventable problems by themselves, they'll start to side with you (ex: having a smokeping to measure internet slowness, etc). Source: about 2 years ago

• Getting tired of Spectrum and their "technical support", what is the appropriate way for me to monitor signal straight from the modem? Not just speed, but packet loss, latency, etc?

  Connect a device to an Ethernet port on the router and run a monitoring tool. WiFi in an apartment scenario is going to lead to the problems you are describing. I use Smokeping in a Docker. I would also test directly connected to the modem to rule out a router problem. If you are using a Spectrum supplied router I would just buy a better quality router and return theirs. Source: over 2 years ago