idk why, but the performance of #AzireVPN, especially its stability, has decreased significantly (reddit users would say "since the acquisition by #Malwarebytes / #FiveEyes" ). There are non-stop disconnects, and even when the connection is up, the overall throughput and RTT are laughable.

back to #Mullvad it is and... wow, 50% lower median RTT 🤡

the actually sad part is that everybody hosts at #Datapacket, #31173, #xtom, and #M247, which comfortably covers #FourteenEyes

mhmm.. probably nobody remembers or even knows about #ovpnTO (not to be confused with #ovpnCOM) #MrNice #timeflies

ps: please ignore the packet loss, as the step size is 5min and I just reconfigured and restarted everything - thx

#vpn #opnsense #smokeping #homelab

Can #Smokeping create a grouped view of some probes, that I can reference through targets?

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/08/21/12586/smokeping-fastcgi-caddy-%e7%9a%84%e8%a8%ad%e5%ae%9a/

SmokePing (FastCGI) + Caddy 的設定

#caddy #fastcgi #pi #raspberry #raspberrypi #smokeping

Cloudflare oopsie just now

#smokeping

How to Measure and Monitor Network Latency in Linux Using ping, mtr, and smokeping #network #ping #mtr #smokeping #linux #linuxnetworking #troubleshooting #commandline
https://ostechnix.com/monitor-network-latency-linux-ping-mtr-smokeping/

@dillo I got it running here now: https://smokeping.melroy.org/

I just setup it up. Although I'm also running Grafana (Like: https://stats.melroy.org/public-dashboards/f628b3a1abe5417fa9549c0a210c953d?orgId=1&refresh=5m)

Smokeping has its own web interface. It should be feasible to create fping with influxdb/Prometheus and create graphs in Grafana as well. But for now I just setuped https://smokeping.melroy.org/

#smokeping #ping #fping #opensource

@dillo I there. There is another tool, which I like even more. It's called #fping and #smokeping https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing. And they just released a new version v2.9.0: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.9.0.tar.gz. Smokeping is using fping under the hood. You can also run fping solo.

Anyhow, here are my results of just the ping command:

--- google.com ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 received, 0% packet loss, time 20287ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.139/7.144/8.523/0.586 ms

More progress on the #homelab renovation.. mostly software-related at the moment though. Managed to get #nomad to correctly mount the NFS volumes I needed for #smokeping and #mariadb, and figured out how template files work for simple config files being passed in to containers.

I'm currently using my old #unraid server as the storage backend.. but I'll most likely still be upgrading to a new unraid server soon so what I setup now can easily be translated to the next server. Once I have everything transferred I'll setup a backup task across the storage on unraid so that I have all application states protected.

Last thing to figure out is the load balancing for my services. I want them all accessible via IP/port on my LAN and by service under #tailscale. Not sure how this will all fit together - I probably need a dedicated box for the LB.. maybe just a simple #nginx proxy with #consul configuration so that it's somewhat dynamic. Would love to get feedback on this, and if you know of a simpler/better way!

You can now find some #smokeping graph on #BoxyBSD's status page: https://boxybsd.com/status/

Do you miss any destination? Let us know!

One ring to rule them all
#RRDTool #Munin #MRTG #SmokePing

I have more than enough technical hobby projects, and #HomeAutomation runs flawlessly with #HomeMatic/ #RaspberryMatic and #CUxD.

But taking a look at #HomeAssistant as an umbrella front-end is definitively worthwhile. Tons of supported 3rd party systems and protocols, a flexible modern GUI, and a resource efficient #docker container are only a few advantages. Also helps to retire some obsolete services like, e.g. #SmokePing.

https://github.com/home-assistant/docker

J'ai installé un #smokeping sur un raspberry pour en faire un outil d'analyse portable.

J'aimerais pouvoir avoir une vue de nom d'hôte sur les graphs, là où il y a juste un nombre. On peut voir dans le preview du lien en bas quel est l'hôte, mais je voudrais que ça soit visible directement dans le titre.

J'ai cherché une variable d'hostname, mais j'ai pas trouvé...Des idées ?

I love and hate #smokeping

Awesome! Seems I've figured out most of #nomad's networking quirks and have #smokeping running, finally..

Even managed to get NFS mounting configured over a CSI so I can host app data externally. All in #terraform!

Deploying #smokeping now

Allow ping from USG https://yeri.be/allow-ping-from-usg #Networking #smokeping #Software #firewall #ubiquiti #Linux

What is a modern replacement for #Smokeping or is there nothing better? Don’t need monsters like Zabbix or Prometheus, I just want some nice RTT/latency graphs for a handful of destinations. Was kind of looking for a #netdata plug-in, but default #ubuntu package doesn’t allow for go plugins which is what I need apparently. Don’t really want to go outside of default Ubuntu…