I'm looking for a tool that I can use to monitor my ping time to a gaming server in real time. I've been getting lag spikes and want to watch where they are happening, how often, etc. I'm very new to Ubuntu and Linux so any help is great. thank you
4 Answers
You're probably looking for something like smokeping.
There's several ways of having it run, here's one.
1Try the mtr (or mtr-tiny) package, it contains the mtr command that continually displays in a terminal the routes and the latest ping times on each router:
. Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 128.199.32.253 0.0% 58 0.3 3.6 0.3 19.8 5.2
2. 138.197.250.78 0.0% 58 0.3 1.1 0.3 22.9 3.3
3. adm-b1-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 0.8 0.7 0.4 1.0 0.0
4. adm-bb4-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 79.7 80.4 79.6 88.2 1.5
5. ldn-bb4-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 80.7 78.5 77.3 88.8 2.2
6. ldn-b4-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 7.8 8.3 7.3 22.3 2.0
7. ldn-bb3-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 112.2 113.3 112.1 145.0 4.6
8. prs-bb3-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 94.2 94.4 94.1 95.8 0.2
9. ash-bb4-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 94.9 94.7 94.3 97.0 0.5
10. ash-b1-link.telia.net 0.0% 57 94.5 94.4 94.2 94.7 0.0
11. tp-brdrbtr-02.bwi.tierpoint.net 0.0% 57 96.6 96.7 96.5 97.0 0.0
12. te-0-0-2-2.tp-bwi-core-rtr-01.bwi.opsmgmt.net 0.0% 57 96.6 96.5 96.4 96.6 0.0
13. 40.142.52.27 0.0% 57 97.4 97.4 97.2 97.8 0.0
14. 144-202-157-173.baltimoretechnologypark.com 0.0% 57 99.1 99.0 98.9 100.1 0.1
15. 144-202-238-253.baltimoretechnologypark.com 0.0% 57 98.8 98.8 98.8 99.0 0.0
16. ssd20-md.privatesystems.net 0.0% 57 96.9 96.9 96.9 97.1 0.0
17. host.gimpchat.com 0.0% 57 97.0 96.9 96.8 99.7 0.3You can also create a log file.
#!/bin/bash
# Ubuntu_Mate 18.04 LTS
#-----------------------------------
# Check internet connection every minute or at a set interval
# and create log file
# If connection is not present, ping will show 100% packet loss
#--- 47.182.239.232 ping statistics ---
#1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
#-----------------------------------
while true; do
date >> Internet_Connection_Log.txt
echo >> Internet_Connection_Log.txt
ping yahoo.com -c 1 >> Internet_Connection_Log.txt
echo >> Internet_Connection_Log.txt
sleep 60
doneYou don't need a special application to do what you want.
Just open a terminal window from the Unity launcher, then in that window, type ping followed by the name of the site you wish to monitor.
Example: ping
Use a control-c to stop the pings.
note: pings will not tell you where the problem is, just when the problem occurs.
