A simple way to keep tabs on your ISP performance. It will ping a domain of your choice every 30
seconds and write the results to output/<your-domain>.csv for later analysis.
There is a binary included, so you can kick it off in the background like so:
./bin/netcheck google.ie > output/run.log 2>&1 &Program output and errors will be written to output/run.log.
The statistics provided by the ping program will be collected every 30 seconds (3 commands are
issued, i.e. ping -c 3 <your-domain> is executed) and written to the CSV file.
The CSV file will look like so:
"ts","success","pkt_loss_percent","min","avg","max","stddev"
"2020-10-11T19:21:20Z","true","0.0","18.478","18.65","18.848","0.152"
"2020-10-11T19:21:52Z","true","0.0","12.166","13.618","15.797","1.569"
"2020-10-11T19:22:24Z","true","0.0","14.495","17.079","18.747","1.853"
A failure to execute the ping will result in a line like so:
"2020-10-11T23:16:13Z","false","-","-","-","-","-"
Instructions on how to get yourself some pretty Gnuplot graphs based on the CSV files output can be found here.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ciaranarcher/netcheck.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.