# SmokePing Reviews
**Vendor:** Okera  
**Category:** [Server Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-monitoring)  
**Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 28
## About SmokePing
SmokePing is a tool to keep track of network latency.




## SmokePing Reviews
  ### 1. Smoke Ping for Latency

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

It can help us in finding latency issues within the network and precisely to indicate the BH link which is having high  latency

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

This tool didn't provide any notification for the site causing high latency, we have to check manually

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

Those who have to deal with latency, smoke ping is the tool

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are solving latency issue by using tool

  ### 2. Best tool to monitor Network Latency

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arun M. | Technical Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Graphs: Graphs give us perfect visualizations about the network latency even for a small fraction of time.

Easy deployment: Deployment is very easy and straightforward.

Alerting System: We are using its alerting system for the past many years that notify us in a fraction of seconds through emails in case of latency across our any data-center.

Free tool: The best part, it doesn't require you to spend any money and reporting issues and checking out its FAQs over Github.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

GUI: Wish it could have a good looking, more colorful graphical interface in upcoming builds.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

If you are looking for an open source tool to visualise Latency over your network, this would be the best one to choose

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are entirely dependent on this tool to measure Network latency which may occur at any time in our data centers across the globe.

Basically, we have added our network devices, ISPs, servers in Smoke ping, so in case of alert of we segregate the issue by looking into graphs at which Network layer we have got Latency and then work upon accordingly.

  ### 3. SmokePing Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** QASIM N. | Packet Core Senior Engineer - Mobile EPC/vEPC, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

I was using SmokePing to measure the latency of Social Media Apps (Like FB, YouTube, Twitter etc) along with many internal & External web portals. SmokePing is simple and perfect for it, it is easy to configure and statistics are available in grahphical user interface.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

There is nothing to disklike in SmokePing, since it is tinny tool which helps in measuring alot of stuff automatically. May be someday they shall allow colorful shaded 3D graphs :).

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Alot of stuff related to DNS & ISP latency. Whenever there was an issue at ISP SmokePing graphs start showing it. I was part of Ericsson Packet Core 2nd line operation team, and SmokePing helped me a lot, manual checks used to take hours when it comes to measuring the latency.

  ### 4. Flexible and powerful

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Taylor A. | MDM Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

• Incredibly flexible
• Multiple ping options

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Non-intuitive setup for non-experts.  Requires previous Linux knowledge.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Using SmokePing on a rPi system to monitor connectivity and latency for internal and external sites.  Has given us the ability for users to quickly hit the web interface to check for issues before contacting the network team.  Solid data to present to the ISP for confirmation of suspected issues when needed.

  ### 5. Fast & Reliable but Old & Not User Friendly.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jonathan S. | Network Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Its fast, takes very little resources of the server. Its stable, because of its age. Free and Open source. Easy to first time setup, in my case, in Debian and in Ubuntu its one line command for installing. Though adding destinations to monitor is a hassle, it is not complex.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

WebUI is old. To add new configuration, I have to log into the server; I want a solution where I can add new IP, hostname/manage configuration from WebUI.
Not sure if it exists, dark mode on WebUI by default would be nice, including the graphs; current solution I come across darkens the webpage except the graphs.
Has no built in WebUI login mechanism, I have to use Apache's authentication system. A builtin username/password system for WebUI will be very helpful.
Not exactly real-time, I understand that was probably not the goal in the first place. Still it would be nice to have a option/button beside each/any monitored host which can take my to a page that can provide realtime informations. These real time information are not needed to be added in rrd.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

If you want something simple, runs light, has less features but what it does it does best, which is checking latency on many destinations, then smokeping is just for you. It can keep long term data in a reasonable small space, you can also migrate the data if/when you change the host server.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Monitoring a network with great numbers of nodes spanned over a country, some outside the country; smokeping can handle all those with very lilttle server power. It gives level one quick informations about current status.
As an ISP we also have to monitor various destinations, public DNS, upstream point to point, etc. Its easier with smokeping.
We can check point to point(not exactly, but close enough) link status of all our nodes, which helps us on making decisions regrading maintenance/upgradation related plans.
We can also monitor various destinations, like video game hosting, netflix, other latency sensetive services. If/when we see abnormalities we can start troubleshooting proactively, before our clients start to complain us.

  ### 6. Experience of using SmokePing

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

The multiple graphs with different granularity levels in terms of the time periods covered displaying ping statistics, including round trip time (RTT) from the source to the destination and packet loss information with different color codes used to depict different statuses. The ability to select a particular time range to get deeper insights within that period is also immensely advantageous.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

- The web GUI looks a bit outdated and could be made to have a more modern feeling with some rework.
- The configuration could be painful since it is text based.
- Inability to configure a cluster of monitoring servers in a single set up may hinder large scale deployments.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Confirming network layer reachability to networking devices and all of their layer three interfaces with the alerting function leveraged to get notified in the event of connectivity issues.

  ### 7. SmokePing: The best latency monitoring tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Anthony C. | Technical Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

This is hands down the best latency monitor out there.  I have used smokeping for many years.  Great way to monitor your network health and keep your circuit providers in check

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

The setup and host additions can be a bit tricky.  Once you learn the ins and outs it isn't too bad

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Vendors not providing meeting thier SLAs

  ### 8. Smokey Ping tool.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vincent Z. | Business Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

It is a very simple service and easy to use. We specially like the graphs and visual details provided about ping queries we submit to decide what needs to be done and how to improve it and where. Also it is very crucial tool for downloading some important data for later research and decision making for us.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

There is not much to dislike about it. But we really feel it should have been more comprehensive and detailed in some complex cases. In some scenarios we feel it provides data less and we need to do it manually. But these kind of situations arises very rarely or it happens rarely. Most of the time we get what we want.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

Well using this service is very easy and highly recommended to those who deal with network and web development and maintenance. Great tool for administrators and web masters. My recommendations for you all is to use it to it maximum. Try to learn the graphs and visuals they provide in graphs. More than numbers those graphs gives you more details, which will help you to make the decision about where you have to work. All these is very crucial or important to fix the issue and make network smooth or on the best working condition.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helps us to find the network overload or problematic areas in network. Also we analyse the information provided to make our website and all pages more responsive to different network conditions. We use other techniques to make it work but basic data comes from SmokePing.

  ### 9. easy to install and administrate. Very usable tool for our NOC

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vladimir K. | Senior Network Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

configuration flexibility. Best to find some wrong routes from/to your network

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

nothing, for us is one betters tools for latency monitoring

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We monitoring  connectivity with a different IP Exchanges via different  ISP

  ### 10. Increase your Visibility for Network Latency and monitored nodes

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Saud M. | Network Engineer | OG1, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

The first best thing about it is that its free and lock on the number of nodes you wants to monitor. It shows you the Graph with the good historical overview. You can use it to monitor the route change in the path which could increase the latency and the smoke in the graph can help you to watch out the fluctuation. The color of the graph helps to know the severity of packet loss and. We have monitored important nodes in ISP to have broad visibility in the picture of graph. For Enterprise, If you are making VPNs which multiple clients over Internet, you can use it to monitor the Peer Client IP to have good health monitoring of the path, and it can also help you for vpn troubleshooting. It doesn't require very heavy server configuration and can be configured on pretty average blade.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

The configuration of the server is bit difficult and you need to work on it to setup for the first time and understand it. Since there is no web GUI so everything is through script. Also as its free so there is not proper interactive help and guide where you can open trouble ticket. And if it crashes you have of your own to get it back on the path.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

I would definitely recommend it, if you are considering to have good visibility of your Network latency with historical data archive.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

1. Historical Complete Latency data of the required nodes in good presentative graph.
2. Its graph can be used to dig down the issue which occur sporadically and difficult to catch on the fly.
3.For Enterprise which have multiple branches like my current employer which have more than 1600+ branches, it can be used to monitor the branches with nice historical data.
4. Good Archival of the data which can be used as per need and requirement.
5 Great tool for NOC , or I can say a must tool to have an eagle eye on your network latency status.

  ### 11. A great tool for infrastructure monitoring

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Overall It is an excellent tool for monitoring network infrastructure. Currently, I have almost 100 network interface monitoring with this tool. All details historical data & reports in one place. Now I can fight with my upstream ISP with solid proof that there is no lag in our office infrastructure but at ISP side latency.


Thanks, team Smokeping.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Nothing to dislike, but it could be better if we get a better color code.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I usually measure throughput for ISP & our infra firewall interface & it does its job perfectly.

  ### 12. View the historical data of any circuit

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rokebul I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

It's free! If you know what you are doing, it could be the best tool for you to monitor all your circuits, branch office; basically anything that allows ping reply. It could show the historical state of any circuit as long as 365 days ago. Ideally, you could add as much as node as you want. Off course, it depends on many factor such as the Smokeping server's capacity, bandwidth etc. Not only it shows the downtime of any node, but also the latency of the circuit. There are some colored representation so that one could understand the severity of packet loss of any circuit.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

One of the major drawback of the tool is there is no support. You have to spend much time to understand the nitty-gritty of the tool. For a small business. it's fine. But for large scale monitoring, this tool breaks sometime. Only then you have to change some of the core settings like "probe time", "CheckLatency" etc. Setting up a server is also painful. As there is no GUI management interface for the tool.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As a large organization, we have so many branches and so many nodes to monitor. It's great to have a monitoring system like that so that we could check the service stability of any node. For the historical data, reporting is now very easy for us.

  ### 13. GUI's Ping

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Marvin O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

As the name implies , it is a tool for measuring and graphing network latency using ping. It is said that the name was given because the graph looks like smoke, cool right. A must have tool when checking the quality of communication where latency is critical (e.g. VoIP environment)  and provide historical latency visualization. This was way better than our self-implementation of capturing historical network deterioration  using CLI mtr logs.

Aside from being free and open-source, it works even on a server with fairly low specifications as it only do pings and graphs metrics.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Configuration is really painful because this is an old-fashioned OSS. It takes time and effort  when changing settings and / adding new probes to monitor-not done via web UI.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

If you're already deploying cacti, smokeping implementation should fairly be simple. A Piece of Cake! You can deploy this on top of that but on a different port.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Each one I use has a concept of monitoring, and I think it is important to think carefully about what should be monitored as a service. But when it comes to monitoring network latency, this is the must-have tool. Graphical visualization of historical network deterioration was really useful to us when escalating incident reports to our service providers.

  ### 14. SmokePing is one of the finest OpenSource tool for latency visualisation.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nazmul Islam R. | Advanced DevOps/Network Engineer (Level 3), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

SmokePing is free fully OpenSource and provides graphical visualization for monitor the latency and packet loss. SmokePing also have the option to trigger alarm as per threshold settings. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a long-term data archive and provides graphical visualisation. SmokePing supports a plug-in architecture that can easily add new latency measurement capabilities.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

From my view, I haven't faced any issues with SmokePing, so there is nothing I found to dislike.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

Whoever wants to monitor the latency and packet loss for the network with a OpenSource tool, I would like to recommend  SmokePing. This is very useful latency measurement tool which makes life easier during the packet loss troubleshooting.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I haven't faced any issues with SmokePing installation.I have used  SmokePing for the backbone links of our ISP network and also for all the customer links to monitor the latency and packet loss.

  ### 15. Simple and amazing tool for monitoring your network latency and keep track of ping loss

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Julien S. | System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

It's easy to configure and nice to keep track of network latency or any packet lost. 
Simple and easy tool but very helpful and powerful.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Smokeping make his job very well and graphically it's easy and nice to see the latency on the network but the design is a little bit old school in comparaison of other tools like grafana.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's one the best tools for solving packet loss or network congestion or poor routing. Very helpful to diagnose a network issue.

  ### 16. For Network Monitoring This tool is very best.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hafiz Burhan A. | Network Engineer and Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

This tool is good for WAN optimization and especially in MPLS and now SDWAN scenario. 
For the corporate sector this product is good.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

It's a little bit difficult for begginers and newly network engineers.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

First should learn about it and then use it in your organization.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Its helped me in one my project to optimize the network in different countries site and due to this I can monitor the network traffic and troubleshoot the issues.

  ### 17. It very nice and important tools for system and network monitoring.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rajibul M. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Monitoring graph. Which are real-time show-up and down time.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Time latency. if a dashboard for adding nodes or ips.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

Every system admin can use this software for smooth work.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Network real-time monitoring while doing VC and live database running. Time latency monitoring.

  ### 18. Ping 'Em All!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** muhammad k. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

A great tool for monitoring multiple nodes in a network. It shows the exact downtime and the level of packet loss. Also, it is free.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

There is no alarming system if any node gets down. One has to check manually momentarily to know the status of a node.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

After installing smokeping, we were able to monitor the health of a node in terms of networking. Great tool for pursuing RFO to the supplier.

  ### 19. SmokePing is great for monitoring latency, but also really useful for alerting on up/down status.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

If something goes down, I get an alert. If latency is too high, I get an alert. Setting it up was a fun and educational experience.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

The learning curve is a bit steep, but I actually liked that about it. I'm just mentioning it here, because if you're looking for something that works out of the box, this ain't it.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I've used it more than once to demonstrate to a vendor that the there is an issue with their service. That way they can fix their flaky MUX card or whatever the problem is, instead of just blaming customer equipment.

  ### 20. Great monitoring tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vladimir S. | Technical Support Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Alerts and graphs smoke. Isnt easy to read it but when you got it is very useful.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Sometume offset of probes brokes.
Config file can be made easier.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Mostly network problems.
When using alerts downtime is near 0.

  ### 21. SmokePing Review | Delower

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

I used smokeping when I worked for an ISP. The service is very helpful to monitor the stability of any link or a network device. We can get each second packet status by the service or the tool.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Adding of host is little bit difficult. But not too much

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

User who want to monitor link or device perfectly, can use smokeping

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using for link or backbone link monitoring. I can monitor packet each second. It marked the link status in different colors

  ### 22. Excellent tool

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

In our organization, we have so so many nodes to monitor. It's great to have a monitoring system like this so that we could integrate it with other tools.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Nothing the tools great and fulfills the work we need it to do

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

Look at this tool you’ll be surprised

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

General monitoring and support

  ### 23. Fantastic graphical tool for latency measurements

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

- Its free!
- Very easy to set up
- Wonderful graphs help you to monitor network latency or your targets like websites or computers

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

- Manual setup for target specification
- Not really a dislike but: some basic linux knowledge is needed.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My internet connection uptime. Because i am hosting some critical services myself it is urgent that i have control over my traffic flow and stability. This always helps me to solve my problems with my ISP.

  ### 24. Smokeping does essential latency monitoring

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Stephen S. | Staff Unix System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

The GPL smokeping provide latency data collection, RRDtool storage, and graphical presentation of that data.  The cost and flexibility are unsurpassed.  The code is well maintained, and requires a very reasonable amount of resources (RAM, CPU) to run.

The configuration is from a text file, which is fine to edit when starting out, but it's a modest scripting exercise (e.g., perl, puppet .erb, ansible jinja2) to generate it automatically from your favorite data source.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

It doesn't read minds :-)  Our biggest trouble is remembering to update the probe endpoints when our environment changes.  With some effort, we could drive the SmokePing configuration from the environment described by our ansible configuration, but that hasn't yet risen to the top of my todo list.

When the configuration changes, it can sometimes take a while for the probe processes to get synced up with the new requirements, and probes can, on rare occasions, stop functioning, but we're running venerable code (2.6.8) on a lightly provisioned VM, so I'd try a newer version and a beefier host before blaming the tool.  If it happened more often, I'd try those things, but it doesn't.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We're doing WAN virtual desktops, so latency matters a lot to our users.  Smokeping lets us know whether the trouble is at the network layer, or somewhere else.


  ### 25. Easy to use, great for troubleshooting and monitoring

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Troubleshooting and monitoring is very useful

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

Setting it up and adding new hosts can be challenging for a new user

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

You will need some time to implement it and to train others on how to properly update it and read the data

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Network performance issues

  ### 26. Our experience with Smokeping

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

Ping response time really helped us to figure our any possible latencies.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

We didn't find any cons. Everything is great.

**Recommendations to others considering SmokePing:**

No advise as such.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

To identify any possible latencies for our application from different parts of the world.

  ### 27. The best tool to check the variations of latency and jitters

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2020

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

I like the graphical view wher we can check the variations of latency and compare daily, weekly etc.

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

UI needs an improvise. Begineers get confused in their first view.

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We can detect network issues, and routing issues with the variation of latency

  ### 28. a very effective tool to measure latencies

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nelson R. | Especialista en infraestructura, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019

**What do you like best about SmokePing?**

A very effective tool to measure latencies in the services, I can configure by headquarters, configure alarms and set thresholds

**What do you dislike about SmokePing?**

the interface could be more pleasant and I would like it to be configured via web

**What problems is SmokePing solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have solved the problem of being able to monitor the services of my company


## SmokePing Discussions
  - [How do you run SmokePing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-run-smokeping)
  - [What is a SmokePing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-smokeping)
  - [What is SmokePing used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-smokeping-used-for)
  - [How to use it for mobile application development and responsiveness of it?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33913-how-to-use-it-for-mobile-application-development-and-responsiveness-of-it) - 1 upvote
  - [If you have any training tutorial then kindly share in my personal email please .](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32850-if-you-have-any-training-tutorial-then-kindly-share-in-my-personal-email-please) - 1 upvote

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## SmokePing Features
**Visibility **
- Dashboards and Visualizations
- Alerts and Notifications
- Reporting

**Monitoring and Management**
- Multi-Server Management
- Automation
- Performance Baseline
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Immediate Alert Notification
- Proactive Server Monitoring Software

**Cloud environment support**
- Server Monitoring For Cloud Deployments
- Software Scaling

**Agentic AI - Server Monitoring**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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  - [Paessler PRTG](https://www.g2.com/products/paessler-prtg/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (203 reviews)
  - [Checkmk](https://www.g2.com/products/checkmk/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (283 reviews)

