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.

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.