Good free online long term network quality monitoring with graphs?

sims

Previously when I needed it i'd use dslr's smokeping option (the back end is actually all still functional but you can only see the output for the first 5 minutes of an hour) Also thinkbroadband's BQM.
Thinkbroadband is more convenient by not having a arbitrary stop time, I can come back months later and it'll still be working while dslr required staying on top of renewals. However thinkbroadband is based in europe so the ping time is always really high and they don't allow changing the display timezone so it's in BST so it requires conversion to figure out what time an issue occurred.

Anyone know of similar services?

HELLFIRE

Online, no.

If you have a spare Windows machine, want a free (beer) product, and are okay with putting in time and elbow grease, my plug's always gone for Paessler PRTG -- https://www.paessler.com/prtg

Here's everything PRTG can monitor -- https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/list_of_available_sensor_types

My 00000010bits

Regards

HELLFIRE

...in the Dumb Question(TM) pile : what's your endgoal of this exactly? You just want ping graphs of your internet connection going back for as long as you can?

Regards

sims

HELLFIRE Really the vast majority of the time I only need the last 24 hours. I want to be able to tell at a glance if there is an issue and how long the issue has occurred, the issue with that is it requires it to be running all the time even when I don’t need it so I can look at the logs when I actually do need it.
A week of history is plenty to determine things like “service cuts out at 5PM every day” Or “latency skyrockets whenever it rains”.

I could run something locally or on a VPS but it’s not currently worth the effort past the functionality i’m able to get from thinkbroadband’s BQM, sure I get better graphs and time I don’t have to convert but now I have to maintain it.

Off topic but I think I have email notifications for forum replies setup correctly now.

whocares256

What about ping plotter?

EthSlinger

If you want latency, you can install SmokePing yourself easily enough with Docker. If you want something more in depth, I’ll always recommend Cacti or Zabbix depending on how dirty you want to get.

HELLFIRE

Hope the suggestions give you something to look into. Pick a tool, learn it well, and all that…

Regards

cypherstream

At home I have a little Dell Optiplex 5070 running proxmox with a VM for Opnsense and a PCI-E 4 port NIC passthrough to it. Then I have a few LXC containers for things like Smokeping, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus., Unifi Controller. Its all set to auto boot in the correct timed order and its a single package. BIOS is set to auto power on after power fail and I have GRUB start proxmox in 1 second for quick bootup. I also have a power script installed to keep the power usage low (Electric costs a bit these days).

Grafana and Smokeping monitor my cable internet and a few other things.

Example:

If you have a small machine running proxmox, some of this stuff is super easy to install with TTEK’s helper scripts. Just search for smokeping or grafana or many other popular home server type stuff.
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

At work I use cacti and monitor all firewall and switchport interfaces.