oetiker/SmokePing

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1952 stars · 216 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SmokePing is a Perl-based network latency monitoring system that measures, stores, and graphically displays latency, latency distribution, and packet loss using RRDtool as its long-term data store. It runs as a daemon that periodically probes network targets and presents interactive smoke-style graphs through a CGI web frontend, with configurable pattern-based alerting and a master/slave mode for measuring from multiple locations.

Use cases

• monitor network latency over time with long-term graphs
• track packet loss and latency variation between hosts
• get alerted when network latency patterns degrade
• measure round trip times to targets from multiple locations
• visualize jitter and network connection quality history
• ping many hosts on a schedule and graph the results
• keep a historical record of network performance for capacity planning

When to choose

• You need long-term latency, latency-distribution, and packet-loss history with detailed smoke graphs
• You want pattern-based alerting that triggers on configurable latency behaviors rather than simple thresholds
• You need distributed measurements from multiple vantage points via the master/slave deployment model
• You are on a Unix system and want an extensible, self-hosted latency probe with pluggable probe modules (ping, web requests, custom protocols)

When to avoid

• You need a full-stack monitoring platform covering services, hosts, and uptime beyond network latency (consider Zabbix, Icinga, or Prometheus)
• You require a Windows-native or non-Unix deployment
• You want a modern web stack and real-time dashboards rather than a Perl/CGI-based frontend
• You need sub-second, event-driven metrics collection instead of periodic interval probing

Facets

application · maturity stable

monitoring alerting data-visualization cli networking monitoring self-hosted bsd cli self-hosted rrdtool latency-measurement packet-loss network-monitoring perl ping cgi graphing probes master-slave devops linux macos web-server

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