You know, for pings
pingbeat sends ICMP pings to a list of targets and stores the round trip time (RTT) in Elasticsearch (or elsewhere). It uses tatsushid/go-fastping for sending/recieving ping packets and elastic/libbeat to talk to Elasticsearch and other outputs. Essentially, those two libraries do all the heavy lifting, pingbeat is just glue around them.
Install and update this go package with go get -u github.com/joshuar/pingbeat
See the example configuration file for configuring your targets and assigning an output (default output is Elasticsearch).
If using the Elasticsearch output, you should add a
new index template using the
supplied one, for example with curl -XPUT /_template/pingbeat -d @/path/to/pingbeat-template.json.
Once you've created a configuration file you can run
pingbeat with pingbeat -c /path/to/pingbeat.yml.
There is a Kibana export you can use to create some basic visulisations and a simple dashboard to explore pingbeat data.
In order to send regular ICMP ping packets, pingbeat needs to open raw
sockets, which can only be done with superuser privileges. So you
either need to run pingbeat with sudo or as root to send regular
pings. If you don't want to do that, set privileged: false in your
config and run pingbeat as a regular user. It will then use a UDP ping to test connectivity.
pingbeat is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.