I wanted to monitor internet availability by pinging some known providers. I thought that, by taking the response time of those DNS's, it would give some good indication of availability and how is performance. Actually, I find those results very good.
But I also tried to monitor the possible packet loss of those pings. Then I created some dependent items with the following keys.
They are all float values and ping loss is using a unit of %.
It happens that the ping loss values that I receive are comming with some weird percentage, like 0.0239%.
These values are actually the ping response times not the loss count.
Inicially I thought that pinging something could retrieve the availability, the response performance and also the loss count. But how could I get these informations without creating a bunch of items?
Is there a way to make that work, to calculate the loss count without creating new querys?
Thank you.
But I also tried to monitor the possible packet loss of those pings. Then I created some dependent items with the following keys.
| Name | Triggers | Key | Interval | History | Trends | Type |
| ICMP response time Cloudflare: ICMP loss CloudFlare | icmppingloss[1.0.0.1,4,200,,200] | 1w | 365d | Dependent item | ||
| ICMP response time Google: ICMP loss Google | icmppingloss[8.8.4.4,4,200,,200] | 1w | 365d | Dependent item | ||
| ICMP response time Vivo DNS: ICMP loss Vivo DNS | icmppingloss[,4,200,,200] | 1w | 365d | Dependent item | ||
| ICMP response time Cloudflare | Triggers 3 | icmppingsec[1.0.0.1,4,200,,200] | 5m | 1w | 365d | Simple check |
| ICMP response time Google | Triggers 3 | icmppingsec[8.8.4.4,4,200,,200] | 5m | 1w | 365d | Simple check |
| ICMP response time Vivo DNS | Triggers 3 | icmppingsec[,4,200,,200] | 5m | 1w | 365d | Simple check |
It happens that the ping loss values that I receive are comming with some weird percentage, like 0.0239%.
These values are actually the ping response times not the loss count.
Inicially I thought that pinging something could retrieve the availability, the response performance and also the loss count. But how could I get these informations without creating a bunch of items?
Is there a way to make that work, to calculate the loss count without creating new querys?
Thank you.
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