smokeping
smokeping is a network latency/packet-loss monitoring tool that measures and plots “smoke” traces over time by sending probe packets to configured targets (typically via ping/round-robin probing) and visualizing results.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Security posture is largely determined by how you deploy it (self-hosting, firewalling, and securing any exposed web UI). If a web UI is enabled, ensure proper TLS and authentication on the hosting web server; protect probe execution privileges needed for ICMP/raw sockets; keep OS/package dependencies updated.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You need lightweight, self-hosted network path monitoring with historical graphs for latency/loss.
Avoid When
You require modern cloud SaaS APIs/SDKs, strong authentication boundaries, or a managed hosted service with webhooks.
Use Cases
- • Continuous monitoring of latency and packet loss between network endpoints
- • Tracking network performance regressions over time
- • Building time-series graphs/dashboards for network troubleshooting
- • Monitoring ISP/link quality and stability
- • Detecting intermittent network issues using multi-target probes
Not For
- • Application-layer monitoring (HTTP/API transactions)
- • Acting as an alerting/incident management platform by itself (unless integrated into your tooling)
- • Secure multi-tenant SaaS access to managed probes (this is typically self-hosted)
Interface
Authentication
No SaaS-style API authentication is indicated; typical deployments are self-hosted and protected via local network controls and/or web-server auth if a UI is exposed.
Pricing
Pricing not applicable for a self-hosted OSS tool.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ This is primarily a CLI/self-hosted daemon and web UI rather than a programmatic API; agent automation usually means managing configs, running commands, and scraping/reading generated outputs/graphs.
- ⚠ Network probing may require ICMP permissions/capabilities depending on OS and configuration (e.g., raw socket/privileged execution).
- ⚠ Results are time-series/graph artifacts; using it as an API-like data source may require parsing exported reports rather than calling a stable endpoint.
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.