denisbrodbeck / pinger

Pinger takes a list of hosts and pings them periodically, printing the csv formatted result to stdout or file.

pinger pings hosts

An easy-to-use cli ping app for Windows. Pinger takes a list of hosts and pings them periodically, printing the csv formatted result to stdout or file. Does not require elevated permissions.

CLI usage

# Ping three hosts continuously until aborted using default options
pinger.exe 1.1.1.1 mozilla.org rust-lang.org

# Print the result to a tab-separated file instead of to stdout
pinger.exe -o watch.csv 1.1.1.1 mozilla.org

# Ping each host every 5 seconds using a timeout of 2 seconds
pinger.exe --interval 5 --timeout 2 rust-lang.org

All available flags:

USAGE:
    pinger.exe [OPTIONS] [hosts]...

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -i, --interval <interval>    Interval between pings (in seconds) [default: 10]
    -o, --output <output>        Output file, stdout if not present
    -t, --timeout <timeout>      Timeout for each ping (in seconds) [default: 3]

ARGS:
    <hosts>...    Hosts to ping

CSV Output

The csv file created by pinger.exe -i 5 -o out.csv mozilla.org rust-lang.org:

Timestamp;Host;Address;Available;RTT;Error;Host;Address;Available;RTT;Error
2020-04-29T10:26:58.518006200+00:00;mozilla.org;63.245.208.195;true;190;;rust-lang.org;143.204.89.25;true;23;
2020-04-29T10:27:03.754666100+00:00;mozilla.org;63.245.208.195;true;188;;rust-lang.org;143.204.89.25;true;18;
2020-04-29T10:27:08.770242600+00:00;mozilla.org;63.245.208.195;true;191;;rust-lang.org;143.204.89.25;true;19;
2020-04-29T10:27:13.549704700+00:00;mozilla.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""mozilla.org:53""`";rust-lang.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""rust-lang.org:53""`"
2020-04-29T10:27:18.567781100+00:00;mozilla.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""mozilla.org:53""`";rust-lang.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""rust-lang.org:53""`"
2020-04-29T10:27:23.565042100+00:00;mozilla.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""mozilla.org:53""`";rust-lang.org;;false;-1;"could not resolve address `""rust-lang.org:53""`"
2020-04-29T10:27:28.780743700+00:00;mozilla.org;63.245.208.195;true;190;;rust-lang.org;143.204.89.25;true;22;

Previous output rendered as table:

Timestamp	Host	Address	Available	RTT	Error	Host	Address	Available	RTT	Error
2020-04-29T10:26:58.518006200+00:00	mozilla.org	63.245.208.195	true	190		rust-lang.org	143.204.89.25	true	23
2020-04-29T10:27:03.754666100+00:00	mozilla.org	63.245.208.195	true	188		rust-lang.org	143.204.89.25	true	18
2020-04-29T10:27:08.770242600+00:00	mozilla.org	63.245.208.195	true	191		rust-lang.org	143.204.89.25	true	19
2020-04-29T10:27:13.549704700+00:00	mozilla.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""mozilla.org:53"""	rust-lang.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""rust-lang.org:53"""
2020-04-29T10:27:18.567781100+00:00	mozilla.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""mozilla.org:53"""	rust-lang.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""rust-lang.org:53"""
2020-04-29T10:27:23.565042100+00:00	mozilla.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""mozilla.org:53"""	rust-lang.org		false	-1	"could not resolve address ""rust-lang.org:53"""
2020-04-29T10:27:28.780743700+00:00	mozilla.org	63.245.208.195	true	190		rust-lang.org	143.204.89.25	true	22

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.