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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding of host is little bit difficult. But not too much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing the tools great and fulfills the work we need it to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Its free!

- Very easy to set up

- Wonderful graphs help you to monitor network latency or your targets like websites or computers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Manual setup for target specification

- Not really a dislike but: some basic linux knowledge is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Troubleshooting and monitoring is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting it up and adding new hosts can be challenging for a new user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ping response time really helped us to figure our any possible latencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We didn't find any cons. Everything is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the graphical view wher we can check the variations of latency and compare daily, weekly etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI needs an improvise. Begineers get confused in their first view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A very effective tool to measure latencies in the services, I can configure by headquarters, configure alarms and set thresholds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the interface could be more pleasant and I would like it to be configured via web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.