ping vs smokeping_prober

ping

ICMP Ping library for Go (by go-ping)

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smokeping_prober

Prometheus style smokeping (by SuperQ)

Prometheus Latency latency-monitor monitoring-tool smokeping

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ping		smokeping_prober
	Project
2	Mentions	24
1,270	Stars	502
1.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.4
2 months ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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ping

Posts with mentions or reviews of ping. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-11.

ICMP echo (ping) library for Go
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2022
High resolution ping Monitoring, or other sub-second network link quality monitor
2 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 11 Mar 2021

Right now there's no support for per-packet timeouts, but it's something I hope we can have eventually.

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 ping and smokeping_prober you can also consider the following projects:

supernova - Game engine for 2D and 3D projects with entity component system (ECS) and data-oriented design

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

RabbitMQ

vaping - vaping is a healthy alternative to SmokePing!

supernova - :milky_way: Apache Pulsar client for Haskell

blackbox_exporter - Blackbox prober exporter

servant-errors - Servant Errors wai-middleware

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

calamity - A library for writing discord bots in haskell

net-test - Monitors network connectivity for downtime.

Speedtest-Tracker - Continuously track your internet speed

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