Ping Monitor

A simple application to monitor network uptime at home. I used this to determine when connection to my ISP was instable. This setup starts three docker containers. Grafana for UI, InfluxDB as storage and a python docker container, containing a small skript which sends ICMP pings and stores the results in the InfluxDB.

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Python 3

Installation

1. Clone Repository
2. Run python3 generate.py
3. Run docker-compose up -d
4. Open Grafana http://localhost:3000
5. Use the credentials to login into grafana from the generate .env file in the root of the repository

Metrics

Currently following metrics are supported:

• active: Flag which indicates if a connection was possible
  • 0: connection failed
  • 1: connection was ok
• round_trip_time_max: Longest running ping in a batch (in ms)
• round_trip_time_min: Shortest running ping in a batch (in ms)
• round_trip_time_avg: Average RTT for a batch (in ms)

Used Libraries

• https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
• https://github.com/alessandromaggio/pythonping