This flows measures every 5 sec the ping times of several hosts and shows it in the Node-RED UI dashboard (see screenshot dashboard)
Moreover these ping times are also stored in an influx database which can be visualized in a graphana dashboard.
- Requires an influx database with following specs:
- server:port = influxdb:8086
- database = ping
- no username and password
- it is adviced to set the retention policy less than 1 week
- macOS’s firewall can block the ICMP packets that ping uses, which will interfere with this test. Make sure you disable “Stealth Mode” in “System Preferences”->“Security & Privacy” -> “Firewall
- Currently my macbook doesn't get the same IP address from DHCP - so you might need to manually update the flow for this.