sping is a network diagnostic utility that extends the traditional ping command with detailed connectivity measurements and live visualisations. It helps users monitor network performance and investigate problems affecting local or remote destinations.
The application goes beyond measuring response times by providing information about the network path and surrounding connectivity. It can examine the local gateway and an external reference destination to help distinguish problems with a particular host from wider network outages.
sping is designed for interactive troubleshooting as well as automated monitoring. Its terminal interface offers several display modes, while structured output allows measurement results to be processed by scripts and other tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- ICMP echo monitoring with IPv4 and IPv6 support.
- TCP connection probes for destinations where ICMP traffic is blocked.
- Measure round-trip latency with minimum, average and maximum values.
- Calculate jitter, mean deviation and packet-loss statistics.
- Display latency percentiles and response-time distributions.
- Live pulse graph showing recent latency measurements and lost packets.
- Adaptive detection of unusual latency spikes.
- Connection quality scores with improving or degrading trend indicators.
- Track network outages and identify recovery events.
- Identify the network interface, source address and default gateway.
- Monitor gateway and external connectivity independently of the target.
- Correlate failures to suggest likely causes of connectivity problems.
- Display TTL values and estimated network hop counts.
- Compact, extended and traditional ping-style views.
- Multi-target dashboard for monitoring several destinations simultaneously.
- Batch monitoring using a file containing target addresses.
- Machine-readable JSON output for automated processing.
- Configurable probe intervals, timeouts and payload sizes.
- Automatic hostname re-resolution during extended monitoring.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/LambdaBytes/sping
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Developer: Antonio Cotos
License: MIT License
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