Network latency monitoring with SmokePing | A self-hosted app spotlight

In today's self-hosted app spotlight we look at SmokePing, a network latency monitoring tool.
Smokeping docs
- oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
Alex's Infrastructure stuff
- docker-compose snippet - gist.github.com/ktzsystems/60...
- docker bash aliases snippet (includes dtail) - gist.github.com/ktzsystems/60...
- github.com/ironicBadger/infra
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Intro music: Joe Ressington

[@ElliotWeishaar]

I love this content and the self-hosted podcast. Keep up the great work!

[@music_and_stuff]

Came for the smokeping help, left with my mind blown about the vscode ssh capability - thank you for that!

[@kevinwhiten2804]

Thank you for showing how to add/edit Targets. I had no idea

[@dmkanter]

thanks, great overview!

[@Weirlive]

I love how you show these cool graphs and then give the same answer we all do when someone reports something wonky around 1830 yesterday "it must have just been something upstream" (goes back to working on other things)

[@ktzsystems]

Shrugging is a powerful troubleshooting tool.

[@albertkok7404]

Your videos are great. I've came across them exactly for the point you made. Checking if my ISP in Bali is trying to kick the can down the road. I am a European living here with a private VPN home server abroad. The performance has dropped dramatically all of a sudden. The ISP came with a new router and blamed it on a broken sea cable in Singapore that I can't find much info on. Still digging into it further and learning a lot. Cheers mate!

[@ktzsystems]

Good luck!

[@huntmanday]

I’ve been sleeping on this, will definitely implement now!

[@ktzsystems]

L3 sleep or…?

[@lonixx]

Such a useful video :) I might bother to set on up at some point.

[@ktzsystems]

You should!

[@lonixx]

Also shoutout to the guy That acctually started Linuxserver with me.

[@ktzsystems]

OG

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Top quality content

[@ktzsystems]

Top quality comment!

[@cristivpopescu]

cool!

[@DanPalusak]

Excellent and informative video. One question: Where/What do you add to the config to add your unifi equipment?

[@ktzsystems]

IP address for a tcp ping like the examples I showed in the vid

[@DanPalusak]

@@ktzsystems Excellent! Thanks Alex, much appreicated.

[@spencerhooks]

I didn't quite understand your local DNS setup and haven't got mine working the way I'd like. More info on that would be interesting to see.

[@ktzsystems]

I have a video planned but for now this blog post explaining every detail will have to do ;)
blog.ktz.me/fully-automated-dns-and-dhcp-with-pihole-and-dnsmasq/

[@rajilsaraswat9763]

What do you suggest for a multiwan on pfsense scenario? A separate smoke ping instance is needed for each wan?

[@ktzsystems]

You’d either need to do that or get clever with routing. It might be simpler logically to have a couple of smokepings or investigate the softwares client server model instead.

[@RobbyPedrica]

2 sp instances with a policy based route for each - sp a goes out link 1 and sp b goes out link 2

[@RiceFromHell]

wish you showed how to install smokeping

[@user-fm9xr1kq5r]

how to install

[@LampJustin]

Speaking of reliability, how's your new network treating you?

[@ktzsystems]

I’m extremely happy with the new fiber gear. Especially now I’m shifting video files around! Video on the upgrade coming soon.

[@LampJustin]

@@ktzsystems awesome, glad to hear! Been using SFPs for some time now and couldn't be happier.

[@XxCrawdadCraigxX]

Really wish you could make a video on how to install it for a normie!

[@ktzsystems]

Install what where? Tailscale I assume… but on what device?

[@Pet_Hedgehog]

why is this 17 mins? i just want to use the program