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Original Authors: Tobias Oetiker and Niko Tyni

SmokePing is a latency logging and graphing and alerting system. It consists of a daemon process which organizes the latency measurements and a CGI which presents the graphs.

SmokePing is ...

• extensible through plug-in modules

• easy to customize through a webtemplate and an extensive configuration file.

• written in perl and should readily port to any unix system

• an RRDtool frontend

• able to deal with DYNAMIC IP addresses as used with Cable and ADSL internet.

cheers tobi

Smokeping changes

A live version of Smokeping hosted by sjultra can be found here

smokepingkube.vzxy.net

TODO

• enable our docker image to accept volume mounts for config/config so users of our image can provide their own configuration file or customise the default configuration file
• redirect / to /smokeping/smokeping.fcgi.dist

NOTES

• followed https://atetux.com/how-to-build-and-install-latest-smokeping-on-ubuntu-20-04 as a base to creating this docker image
• and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-track-network-latency-with-smokeping-on-freebsd-11

Smokeping configuration defaults

A default smokeping configuration can be found in config/config.

The Smokeping UI is enabled by default and is configured with config/smokeping.conf

Enable writes to influxDB

• To enable smokeping to write generated metrics to an InfluxDB instance, add the following block to your smokeping config file. Update values to map to your InfluxDB instance

*** InfluxDB ***
host = influxdb:8086
database = smokeping
timeout = 10
port = 8086
username = admin
password = password

Enable the smokeping Grafana dashboard

• To enable the smokeping Grafana dashboard, run your Grafana instance and enable it to communicate with your running . There are many ways to approach this. Below is an example of how to configure Grafana with Smokeping using docker compose.
  • GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD is your default Grafana user password. Unless you've configured it explicitly, the default Grafana username will be admin. See Grafana docs for more info.
  • The /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards volume mount is where your Grafana dashboard configuration will live (dashboard.yml, smokeping.json). You can roll your own dashboard, or use our recommended default, found here.
  • The /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources volume mount is where your Grafana datasource for InfluxDB will live (i.e; influxdb.yml). You can roll youe own datasource configuration, or use our recommended default, found here.
• If you use our recommended defaults, be sure to update values for your InfluxDB instance where applicable in the provided files.

grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:10.1.2
    environment:
      - GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true
    volumes:
      - ./grafana/dashboards:/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
      - ./grafana/datasources:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - "influxdb"