README.md

ping-chart.py

A simple tool to ping a remote server for a period of time, and generate a graph of the connection times. It uses your computer's built-in ping tool.

Requirements

• ping
• Python 3.9+
• installing all Python dependencies with python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage

First, download script and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/beachwood23/ping-chart.git
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, you can do:

$ python3 ping_chart.py -h
usage: ping_chart.py [-h] -d DURATION -n NAME -t TARGET [--nochart NOCHART]

Creates charts from output of network pings.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        The duration, in seconds, to run the network test for.
  -n NAME, --name NAME  The name of this host running the network test.
  -t TARGET, --target TARGET
                        The target host of the ping connections. Either IP or FQDN.
  --nochart NOCHART     If this flag is set, no chart will be generated.

Example:

python ping_chart.py -d 60 -n my-mac -t www.github.com 

We then see a progress bar during the test:

Then, after the test has completed, we will see a full chart: