Smokeping On Raspberry Pi Zero

Smokeping is a self-contained network monitoring app , capable of monitoring using ICMP/Ping, HTTP, DNS – as well as other signals generated from CLI monitoring tools (e.g. curl, dig, mtr etc). It provides a web-based monitoring UI to chart the probe measurements so no further monitoring apps (like Prometheus) are needed.

Running smokeping on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is a fun experiment in lightweight computing . Using Apache Mod FastCGI makes the app usable on the meager hardware.

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