MonitorNetworkConnection
A tool that can be run via cron job which checks the connection to certain websites.
Why
This data can tell you if certain websites are often down or if your internet provider has regular outages.
Run
Build it once:
npm install
npm run build
npm prune --production
Run as often as you want after this build:
npm run start # or: 'node .'
The config data is per default in config.json
:
{
"attempts": 5,
"urls": [
"google.de",
"youtube.com",
"en.wikipedia.org"
]
}
The data is per default created in data/data.csv
:
DATE_ISO | URL | IP_ADDRESS | CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS | CONNECTION_STATE | CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_AVG | CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_MAX | CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_MIN |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020-05-19T03:13:22.715Z | google.de | 172.217.18.163 | 5 | CONNECTION | 22.6187332 | 26.715923 | 19.612856 |
2020-05-19T03:13:22.717Z | youtube.com | 172.217.23.174 | 5 | CONNECTION | 24.8670968 | 37.025768 | 18.336162 |
2020-05-19T03:13:22.717Z | en.wikipedia.org | 91.198.174.192 | 5 | CONNECTION | 27.723534800000003 | 29.678412 | 25.775254 |
Setup Cron Job
Add cron job:
crontab -e
Add entry: (this will create data points every 5 minutes)
*/5 * * * * node PATH/TO/CLONED/REPOSITORY