Hello Kurt, Like others have commented RIPE Atlas works very well and many people use it with much success. The only limiting factor for you will be HTTP GET tests but for other tests you mentioned it will run fine. I would definitely recommend to give it one more try. I would like to mention our service - ProbeAPI (http://www.probeapi.com) We are a new service launched this year. I believe we tick all the boxes for your requirements. For non-commercial purposes API access is free. Otherwise feel free to get in touch. To anyone else - yes this is self-promotion I am new to the group (more involved in RIPE community than NANOG). I think this is very relevant to Kurt's question but if you don't think its appropriate please do let me know. Regards, Janusz On 18 November 2015 at 18:28, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Hi,
I'm evaluating different datacenters and vendors accross the globe and it isn't worthy to perform tests like DNS, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET from my office. I need to be able to perform this tests remotely, from multiple endpoints.
The only company I know allow such thing is ThousandEyes, but it is brutally and inexplicably expensive and doesn't fit perfectly to what I'm looking for. It has a paradigm I'm willing to monitor 24x7 specific targets from multiple points of view. I need to make tests on demand, on different targets and URLs.
Does anyone know such service, DNS lookup, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET as a service from multiple nodes geographically spread?
Thanks in advance,
Kurt Kraut