Speedtest Influx Logger

Summary

Micro application to run speedtests periodically and send statistics to remote InfluxDB node.

Was created to be run as a self contained daemon script, or within a Docker setup to automatically push speedtest results to a remote InfluxDB node for display within Grafana.

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Can be run within a script by performing the following:

import speedtest
from speedtest_influx_logger.main import check_speed

check_speed(speedtest.Speedtest())

# 2020-09-27 21:44:27 - Speedtest complete: 166.48/37.67

Statistics

The script sends the following statistic data to Influx:

{
    "measurement": "internet_speed",
    "tags": {
        "host": NODE_NAME,
        "client_version": APP_VERSION
    },
    "fields": {
        "download": float(download),
        "upload": float(upload),
        "ping": float(ping)
    }
}

Installation

python3 -m pip install pipx
apt-get install -y python3-venv
pipx install speedtest-influx-logger

Environment Variables

• NODE_NAME
• INFLUX_HOST
• INFLUX_PORT
• INFLUX_USER
• INFLUX_PASS
• INFLUX_DB
• TEST_FREQUENCY

Links

• GitHub
• Docker Hub
• PyPi