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It can help us in finding latency issues within the network and precisely to indicate the BH link which is having high latency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This tool didn't provide any notification for the site causing high latency, we have to check manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Graphs: Graphs give us perfect visualizations about the network latency even for a small fraction of time.
Easy deployment: Deployment is very easy and straightforward.
Alerting System: We are using its alerting system for the past many years that notify us in a fraction of seconds through emails in case of latency across our any data-center.
Free tool: The best part, it doesn't require you to spend any money and reporting issues and checking out its FAQs over Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
GUI: Wish it could have a good looking, more colorful graphical interface in upcoming builds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I was using SmokePing to measure the latency of Social Media Apps (Like FB, YouTube, Twitter etc) along with many internal & External web portals. SmokePing is simple and perfect for it, it is easy to configure and statistics are available in grahphical user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing to disklike in SmokePing, since it is tinny tool which helps in measuring alot of stuff automatically. May be someday they shall allow colorful shaded 3D graphs :). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its fast, takes very little resources of the server. Its stable, because of its age. Free and Open source. Easy to first time setup, in my case, in Debian and in Ubuntu its one line command for installing. Though adding destinations to monitor is a hassle, it is not complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
WebUI is old. To add new configuration, I have to log into the server; I want a solution where I can add new IP, hostname/manage configuration from WebUI.
Not sure if it exists, dark mode on WebUI by default would be nice, including the graphs; current solution I come across darkens the webpage except the graphs.
Has no built in WebUI login mechanism, I have to use Apache's authentication system. A builtin username/password system for WebUI will be very helpful.
Not exactly real-time, I understand that was probably not the goal in the first place. Still it would be nice to have a option/button beside each/any monitored host which can take my to a page that can provide realtime informations. These real time information are not needed to be added in rrd. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The multiple graphs with different granularity levels in terms of the time periods covered displaying ping statistics, including round trip time (RTT) from the source to the destination and packet loss information with different color codes used to depict different statuses. The ability to select a particular time range to get deeper insights within that period is also immensely advantageous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- The web GUI looks a bit outdated and could be made to have a more modern feeling with some rework.
- The configuration could be painful since it is text based.
- Inability to configure a cluster of monitoring servers in a single set up may hinder large scale deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This is hands down the best latency monitor out there. I have used smokeping for many years. Great way to monitor your network health and keep your circuit providers in check Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The setup and host additions can be a bit tricky. Once you learn the ins and outs it isn't too bad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a very simple service and easy to use. We specially like the graphs and visual details provided about ping queries we submit to decide what needs to be done and how to improve it and where. Also it is very crucial tool for downloading some important data for later research and decision making for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is not much to dislike about it. But we really feel it should have been more comprehensive and detailed in some complex cases. In some scenarios we feel it provides data less and we need to do it manually. But these kind of situations arises very rarely or it happens rarely. Most of the time we get what we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The first best thing about it is that its free and lock on the number of nodes you wants to monitor. It shows you the Graph with the good historical overview. You can use it to monitor the route change in the path which could increase the latency and the smoke in the graph can help you to watch out the fluctuation. The color of the graph helps to know the severity of packet loss and. We have monitored important nodes in ISP to have broad visibility in the picture of graph. For Enterprise, If you are making VPNs which multiple clients over Internet, you can use it to monitor the Peer Client IP to have good health monitoring of the path, and it can also help you for vpn troubleshooting. It doesn't require very heavy server configuration and can be configured on pretty average blade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The configuration of the server is bit difficult and you need to work on it to setup for the first time and understand it. Since there is no web GUI so everything is through script. Also as its free so there is not proper interactive help and guide where you can open trouble ticket. And if it crashes you have of your own to get it back on the path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
