Server no more available

[picoroma]

Hi!
During the last period, I observed that the Servers available for the test is changing continuously.
So, if you writhe the server ID into a NAGIOS\ICINGA command, in case this server will change - the command does not work anymore.
Is possible to select the best server automatically?
As you do, when you run the script manually?
THX

[loopway]

I've had the same problem. Could solve it by updating speedtest-cli https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli to the latest version.

[loopway]

Update: unfortunately it did not solve it completely, but it happens less often now (might be coincidental).

We don't seem to be the only ones experiencing this:

• Test against static servers sivel/speedtest-cli#763
• Reorder speedtest servers URLs, preferring c.speedtest.net domain sivel/speedtest-cli#765

[mavoga]

By analyzing the official test webpage requests it seems JSON server list at https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?engine=js&limit=10&https_functional=true is used instead of XML at www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers(-static)?.php and c.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers(-static)?.php.
The JSON list contains pretty accurate results, identical to website, while XML usually doesn't.
A ping analysis is then performed on each server in order to determine which one has the least latency and to get further info (IP, capabilities).

[jonwitts]

I found that the speedtest-cli from sivel was getting less and less reliable too.

I have begun work on an updated plugin which uses the official binaries from Speedtest: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

I have a version of this working at work; but I am not completely happy with how it runs. The speedtest-native branch of this repo has my code so far...

[mavoga]

Yes I had better to write on a sivel's pull request... the issue I'm experiencing is exactly the one you mentioned. Thanks, going to do that.

[borisv1979]

Just download version 1.3 of the script from https://github.com/iLem0n/nagios-speedtest/tree/0f0fd188a9ef0f37db71372ec3d6cd0784841c79 and use option for automatic server selection.