RustyPing

Simple Rust application to send ICMP ping request to a set of hosts defined on a Redis database. Expose the info as metric HTTP Server for Prometheus.

Focused on datacenters to get a global view of ICMP latency over all hosts.

Only support Linux to deploy the software.
If you want Windows support (or another platform) then you can push a request.

Metrics

Metric	Description
rustyping_host_up	Show if host is responding to ICMP
rustyping_ping_error	Counter of errors of ICMP
rustyping_ping_last	Last latency of ICMP
rustyping_ping_latency_bucket	Latency histogram from 0.1ms to 1s with 30 step and factor 1.37 for buckets
rustyping_ping_latency_sum	Sum of all ICMP latency
rustyping_ping_latency_count	Count of all sended ICMP requests

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RustyPing label	Description
from	Hostname of host where the ICMP is sended
ip	IP address of destination host (ip part of name@ip info from Redis database)
name	Name of destination host (name part of name@ip info from Redis database)

Usage

rustyping [OPTIONS] --redis_host <redis_host>

Option	Description	Environment variable	Default
-r/--redis_host	IP Address of Redis server	RUSTYPING_REDIS_HOST	``
-t/--ping_timeout	Set the timeout in seconds	RUSTYPING_PING_TIMEOUT	1.0
-i/--ping_interval	Set the interval in seconds of each ping request	RUSTYPING_PING_INTERVAL	5

Redis host

The Redis server need to contain a SET with the name rustyping:targets with members with this name name@ip.

Grafana example

You can use grafana to view the information saved in Prometheus. Example dashboard can found on grafana folder.