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Ping Exporter

Prometheus exporter for ICMP ping round-trip metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 631 stars Easy setup MIT

Ping Exporter is a Prometheus exporter that measures network round-trip time, packet loss, and reachability to configured targets using ICMP echo requests. It is a lightweight way to monitor connectivity to hosts and routers from a Prometheus stack.

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Key features

  • Round-trip and loss metrics
  • Multiple target support
  • IPv4 and IPv6 probing
  • Prometheus scrape endpoint

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Trivial to deploy
  • Minimal configuration

Trade-offs

  • ICMP only
  • No alerting on its own

Ping Exporter replaces

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