SmokePing is a cross-platform open source deluxe latency measurement tool

SmokePing can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a long term data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up-to-the-minute information on the state of each network connection.

Its Main Features are:

* Measures latency as well as latency variation.

* Wide variety of probes, ranging from simple ping to web requests and custom protocols.

* Advanced alarm system, triggering on configurable 'latency patterns'.

* Master/slave deployment model to run measurements from multiple sources in parallel.

* Ajax based graph navigation.

* Chart mode, to show the most interesting graphs first

* Plug-able probes, alarms (matchers) and charting function.

* Written in Perl for easy expandability.

* Fully documented.

But whilst it is really feature packed, it is a pretty steep learning curve to just get going, compared to say the proprietary Windows version of PingPlotter that I used many years ago. I'd say the Docker install of SmokePing is maybe a trifle easier, as the config files etc are a bit more standard than the various flavours of Linux install (the AUR install was putting config files in a different place for me).

However, if you do want a more of a PingPlotter alternative, there is also Pingnoo for Linux that is as easy as PingPlotter to get going and shows traceroute as well.

See https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/index.en.html

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