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Smokeping Prober

Prometheus exporter that probes latency like Smokeping

Monitoring & Status ★ 740 stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

The Smokeping Prober is a Prometheus exporter that performs ICMP latency measurements to a configured set of targets, exposing histogram metrics for loss and round-trip time. It brings Smokeping-style network latency tracking into the Prometheus ecosystem.

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Key features

  • ICMP latency histograms
  • Prometheus-native metrics
  • Tiny resource footprint
  • Grafana dashboard friendly

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Drop-in for Prometheus stacks
  • Very lightweight

Trade-offs

  • No built-in UI
  • Requires Grafana for graphs

Is Smokeping Prober secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Smokeping Prober's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Smokeping Prober replaces

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