Just as a heads-up, this is going to be a quick reference guide for the use of the ICMP echo request - or better known as PING. I have to look up some options multiple times a week, so I thought it is beneficial to write it up in a post like this. I might add more options at some point, but those are the most important ones in my experience. In a nutshell: ICMP echo requests can be used to check the reachability of two hosts on layer 3. This is indispensable in any troubleshooting session if ...| ITTavern.com
For a while, I have been looking for a smokeping alternative for latency monitoring from different servers spread around. While smokeping has survived well over time, in 2023 it feels like an outdated package, with limited options, lacks federation etc. This post from Karan Sharma / Zerodha on “Monitoring my home network” was exciting. His setup included a telegraph agent on a local server, Prometheus to scrap data and Grafana to draw latency data. I explored doing the same but in a distr...| Personal blog of Anurag Bhatia