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Really nice that it allows you to pass a list of hosts at the same time, and it will plot them in the same graph: For instance, `gping mydomain.com google.com`
by pqdbr 3y ago
Really nice that it allows you to pass a list of hosts at the same time, and it will plot them in the same graph:
For instance, `gping mydomain.com google.com` is really nice for a quick sanity check (is it my Wifi or my hosting provider).
- ape4 3y agoIts a "super-power" (as the page says)
- orf 3y agoYou can also pass commands instead of hosts (for example running “curl google.com”).
- dredmorbius 3y agomtr (Matt's traceroute) is another great utility for this. It doesn't graph output, but does show connectivity , latency, packet loss, and variance on a set of hosts between your IP and the destination. <https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/> (Previously noted in this thread by westurner: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549005>)
- ktm5j 3y agoIt does have some visualization capabilities if you hit 'd' once or twice. I think it looks nice!
- dredmorbius 3y agoThanks. I know there's a GUI version, though I'm almost always using the CLI/terminal interface myself. So I could be missing some things.
- oxygen_crisis 3y agoThe charting display mode is a CLI/terminal feature, though, not a GUI one.
- dredmorbius 3y agoI may damned well have to read the man page and do some looking at stuff. Oh, holy hell, this is pretty cool! Thanks! (I've ... only been using mtr for ~2 decades.)
- elishah 3y agoI never want to disparage people's efforts, but it is a recurring theme for people to unknowingly reinvent mtr.
- dredmorbius 3y agoAnother lens is that reinventing or independently arriving at existing (and well-regarded) ideas, methods, systems, etc., is a validation of your own creative process. It's very difficult to stay on top of all available tools. I find that so long as it's something I can do with shell tools, awk, or other scripting environments I'm often better of inventing than searching as when you create your own tools you're addressing your own specific needs and constraints, whilst when evaluating a third-party tool, you have to undergo much the same process ("does this do what I want it to do?") often without the ability to readily modify the tool to fit a specific use case. That's not always true, but it often is. And of course, creation helps expand your own creative abilities. If mtr is frequently re-invented, that's a strong validation of the original concept as well.
- stormed 3y agoWow! That's super handy actually. I'm definitely gonna keep note of doing this in the future for my own projects