icmp_watch vs smokeping_prober

icmp_watch

Send batch requests for ICMP and show results in a console window to monitor availability of hosts. (by stolk)

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smokeping_prober

Prometheus style smokeping (by SuperQ)

Prometheus Latency latency-monitor monitoring-tool smokeping

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icmp_watch		smokeping_prober
	Project
2	Mentions	24
14	Stars	504
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	7.4
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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icmp_watch

Posts with mentions or reviews of icmp_watch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-07.

I made a network monitor for in a console window: icmp_watch
1 project | /r/linux | 14 Aug 2022

Open Source (MIT License) and available at my github.
Is there a simple console (ncurses?) application to show a simple green-light/red-light availability (ping?) of a user-defined list of nodes in a single-screen map/list/columns format?
6 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 7 Aug 2022

Prompted by your question, I wrote the icmp_watch tool.

smokeping_prober

Posts with mentions or reviews of smokeping_prober. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-04.

Tools to compare ping times between ISPs to common services
1 project | /r/homelab | 24 Nov 2023

Check out the smokeping_prober. It generates high resolution histogram data that you can use to compare different paths.
How to track that my ISP is up?
1 project | /r/Ubiquiti | 11 Jul 2023

I wrote this smokeping tool to monitor. I also use unpoller
External monitoring service for UDM
1 project | /r/Ubiquiti | 25 Jun 2023

I wrote this tool to monitor my ISP connectivity.
TCPING version 1.19.0 is out!
3 projects | /r/golang | 4 Mar 2023
How many time series or DPM to ICMP ping monitor a device?
1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 28 Feb 2023

I am thinking this might be the exporter to use: https://github.com/SuperQ/smokeping_prober At the bottom of that page it says
"Modern" alternatives to SmokePing
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 25 Jan 2023

I wrote a smokeping_prober for Prometheus.
How do YOU measure network failure recovery times?
1 project | /r/networking | 14 Nov 2022

For some stuff, I do end-to-end probin with a tool I wrote.
Is there a simple console (ncurses?) application to show a simple green-light/red-light availability (ping?) of a user-defined list of nodes in a single-screen map/list/columns format?
6 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 7 Aug 2022

Smokeping Prober
Real-Time Performance Monitoring Software
3 projects | /r/networking | 27 Jul 2022

I wrote a "better smokeping" tool that produces much more detailed data than IP SLA.
How do you monitor your networks latency, jitter, and packet loss?
3 projects | /r/networking | 10 May 2022

I wrote my own variation of smokeping. It currently only does ICMP and UDP probing, but I've thought about adding things like TCP, HTTP, DNS, etc.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing icmp_watch and smokeping_prober you can also consider the following projects:

grafterm - Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)

internet-monitoring - Monitor your network and internet speed with Docker & Prometheus

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

vaping - vaping is a healthy alternative to SmokePing!

vigil - 🚦 Microservices Status Page. Monitors a distributed infrastructure and sends alerts (Slack, SMS, etc.).

blackbox_exporter - Blackbox prober exporter

btop - A monitor of resources

yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter - Prometheus exporter for AWS CloudWatch - Discovers services through AWS tags, gets CloudWatch metrics data and provides them as Prometheus metrics with AWS tags as labels

net-test - Monitors network connectivity for downtime.

Speedtest-Tracker - Continuously track your internet speed

checkmk - Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring

minitor-go - A minimal monitoring tool (Mirror)