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  • Monitoring home internet speeds with Smokeping and Speed Test

    I’ve been monitoring my home internet’s uptime using Smokeping docker container for awhile now. But after finally switching from ADSL to a 100Mbps connection I thought it would be a good time to start also monitoring internet speeds.

    Turns out there is an existing plugin, smokeping-speedtest for Smokeping which does the job.

    For easy setup, I created a docker image to combine the plugin and it’s dependencies and with linuxserver’s docker-smokeping image as a base.

    For configuration, I just followed the instructions and added the follwing to the Probes file.

    + speedtest
    binary = /usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli
    timeout = 300
    step = 3600
    offset = random
    pings = 3
    
    ++ speedtest-download
    measurement = download
    
    ++ speedtest-upload
    measurement = upload
    

    I also added a new section to my Targets file to perform speed tests against a local ISP.

    + SpeedTest
    
    menu = Speed Tests
    title = Speed Tests
    
    ++ download
    menu = Download
    title = Download
    probe = speedtest-download
    server = 2173
    measurement = download
    host = internode.on.net
    
    ++ upload
    menu = Upload
    title = Upload
    probe = speedtest-upload
    server = 2173
    measurement = upload
    host = internode.on.net
    

    The complete Dockerfile is on github and the image on Docker Hub.

    July 9, 2019 - 1 minute read - smokeping speedtest docker