About SmokePing
SmokePing keeps track of your network latency:
- Best of breed latency visualisation.
- Interactive graph exlorer.
- Wide range of latency measurment plugins.
- Master/Slave System for distributed measurement.
- Highly configurable alerting system.
- Live Latency Charts with the most 'interesting' graphs.
- Free and OpenSource Software written in Perl written by Tobi Oetiker, the creator of MRTG and RRDtool
New in Version 2.4 (The SmokeTrace edition)
- SmokeTrace: An Ajax Traceroute tool. Try the demo. SmokeTrace is written in javascript, using the qooxdoo framework, which is responsible for all the cross browser glory.
- The 'blazemode' option for the FPing probe, so that the first (slow) ping packet can be ignored.
If you are thinking about writing qooxdoo of your own, you may want to take my qooxdoo class at the upcoming LISA conference.
New in Version 2.3 (The large site feature edition)
- Measurement targets can be organized into multiple hierarchies.
- The filter system lets you the find the right graphs directly.
- Hide individual targets or whole branches from the default menu tree.
- The Master/Slave mode has become both more stable and more configurable.
New in Version 2.2 (The we go ajax edition)
- AJAX based interactive Graph Zooming
- Click on any graph in detail mode and use the mouse to mark your area of interest in navigator graph. See here.
- Multi Target Graphs
- Show information from multiple targets in a graph. See here..
- Master/Slave setup for multi source smokeping deployments.
- With one central Smokeping Master node, you can run a series of Slave nodes, taking their configuration from the master. This allows you to ping a single target from multiple locations. See here.
- Standard Deviation
- The standard deviation is now used in several places to give a number for the variation in round trip times as depicted by the smoke.
