Expanding the Agent: Speedtest, Ping, DNS & HTTP Monitoring

[svenvg93]

Hi @henrygd,

There have been a few requests to add things like Speedtest and (TCP) Ping to the agent. Would you still be interested in including these kinds of tests? It’s a bit of a shift from the original focus on server monitoring that Beszel started with.

Out of personal curiosity and for learning purposes, I put together a version of the agent that can run Speedtest, Ping, DNS, and HTTP checks, with the configuration being pushed from the hub over WebSocket. If you’re still interested, I’d be happy to spin up a PR for it. Here’s a quick preview of what it looks like:

I would need to work out the UI side of things, but I’m confident that can be figured out.
As an option, we could also make it a secondary agent to keep the system monitoring separate from the “internet” checks.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts.

[henrygd]

Absolutely! I'm very appreciative of the time you've put into improving this project, and I apologize that I've been too busy and/or unmotivated to get most of it across the finish line yet.

I'm fixing a FreeBSD bug today that is very high priority, but tomorrow or Thursday I'll try to follow up on this and other PRs.

I think at this point we definitely need a sidebar layout (shadcn) for easier navigation. We'll also have SMART data and Proxmox VMs / LXC containers coming in the not too distant future.

[svenvg93]

No worries, take your time. I still need to fix and fine-tune a few things before I can throw up a PR. Right now it only works on Linux since it needs the Ookla CLI and fping installed in the host system/Docker image. There’s no Go lib for Ookla, and the ping stuff was a pain with permissions. Might just end up writing my own lib for fping, and maybe even for the Ookla CLI.

As well I want to wait for #1026 to be merged (or closed) so I can use it to sent the testing config to the agents. Problaby will wait for the others to be merged as well, to not have a lot of conflicts to be solved a long the way.

For the sidebar, I think the best approach would be to include separate page/tables for each category—such as system monitoring, Proxmox, internet performance, and so on.

[svenvg93]

@henrygd do you have any indication when #1133 and #1026 will be merged? Just so I know when I can continue with this item ☺️

[henrygd]

Yes, there's one feature I've been working on for months that is fairly close now and I want to try to get it across the finish line. That is a one minute time window with one second updates.

As part of that I'm also refactoring the WS / SSH connections to be more unified so we don't have features that work with WS and not SSH. I'm also making the communication more flexible so we can send arbitrary data more easily.

I'm hoping to have this done, or mostly done, by the end of the weekend. Then I'll try to get those PRs merged. I'll update you if anything changes :)

[svenvg93]

Thanks, take your time! Appreciate all the work you do!

[WelshDev]

Not sure if anyone is still working on this or if there are any plans to get this integrated?
I'd love to see this get merged into the main product.