Useful graphs with SmokePing
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SmokePing is a useful tool developed by Tobias Oetiker and Niko Tyni which monitors and visualize one's network latency. The (for me) most important core features are the following:
A wide range of measurement plugins
Master/Slave setup is possible
Good-looking rrd based graphs
Open Source/GPL 2 (or higher) licensed
In my opinion, it does a really good job on longterm monitoring when there's need of drawing graphs over a long time period. Don't get me wrong, SmokePing is capable for shortterm monitoring as well, e.g. exploring graphs for the last couple of hours to find network outages and its integrated alerting system does a good ...