Internet Speed Test in a Container

Check your internet bandwidth using the Speedtest CLI from a Docker container. You can configure the tool to run periodically and save the results to an InfluxDB for visualization or long-term records.

$ docker run --rm robinmanuelthiel/speedtest:latest

The result will then look like this:

Running a Speed Test...
Your download speed is 334 Mbps (29284399 Bytes/s).
Your upload speed is 42 Mbps (4012944 Bytes/s).

Configuration

Environment variable	Default value	Description
LOOP	false	Run Speedtest in a loop
LOOP_DELAY	60	Delay in seconds between the runs
DB_SAVE	false	Save values to InfluxDB
DB_HOST	http://localhost:8086	InfluxDB Hostname
DB_NAME	speedtest	InfluxDB Database name
DB_USERNAME	admin	InfluxDB Username
DB_PASSWORD	password	InfluxDB Password

Grafana and InfluxDB

For a full visualization and long term tracking, I recommend InfluxDB as a time-series database and Grafana as a dashboard engine. Both come in Docker containers, so the whole setup can be achieved by starting a Docker Compose file.

version: "3"
services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    volumes:
      - grafana:/var/lib/grafana

  influxdb:
    image: influxdb
    volumes:
      - influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb
    ports:
      - 8083:8083
      - 8086:8086
    environment:
      - INFLUXDB_ADMIN_USER="admin"
      - INFLUXDB_ADMIN_PASSWORD="password"
      - INFLUXDB_DB="speedtest"

  speedtest:
    image: robinmanuelthiel/speedtest:latest
    environment:
      - LOOP=true
      - LOOP_DELAY=1800
      - DB_SAVE=true
      - DB_HOST=http://influxdb:8086
      - DB_NAME=speedtest
      - DB_USERNAME=admin
      - DB_PASSWORD=password

volumes:
  grafana:
  influxdb:

To configure Grafana, we need to add InfluxDB as a data source and create a dashboard with the upload and download values. You can find a demo dashboard configuration in the /demo folder.

Hint: The speedtest outputs values as bytes per second. Make sure to divide all values by 125000 in your dashboard to get the Mbps values.