Is there a DNS lookup, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET as a service?
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
ripe atlas? On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, 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
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
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.
For common tests like ping and traceroute, google "ip looking glass". There are a lot of them in a lot of locations, all free to use. -Bill -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
Hi, Thank you for the quick replies. Sorry for not being clear enough: I need it to have an API so I can integrate it with my own solution, generate my own metrics. So looking glasses are pretty much useless: they don't support HTTP GET and DNS lookup (usually) and the parsing for so many different HTML or telnet sources would be very time consuming. Also I've seen many looking glasses with captchas to halt these intents. So I need a SaaS with an API for these tests. About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked. Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some tips but with no meaningful result. I need something reliable and I'm willing to pay for this service. RIPE Atlas falls in the category of 'best effort'. Best regards, Kurt Kraut 2015-11-18 14:32 GMT-02:00 William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
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.
For common tests like ping and traceroute, google "ip looking glass". There are a lot of them in a lot of locations, all free to use.
-Bill
-- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
Hi there, On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:38:28PM -0200, Kurt Kraut via NANOG wrote:
About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked. Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some tips but with no meaningful result. I need something reliable and I'm willing to pay for this service. RIPE Atlas falls in the category of 'best effort'.
Best regards,
I find this surprising. Like many hundreds/thousands of people around the globe I find RIPE ATLAS an excellent and reliable way to get the measurements you require. You may not have had the best experience with your probe setup but I'm sure that if someone can assist you with setup you'll be pleasantly surprised at the ability the network of probes has to fulfill your needs - after all it is the biggest measurement network on the internet today! (at least that's what my t-shirt says) Regards, Mick -- Mick O'Donovan | Network Engineer | BT Ireland | Website: http://www.btireland.net Looking Glass: http://lg.as2110.net Peering Record: http://as2110.peeringdb.com AS-SET Macro: AS-BTIRE | ASN: 2110
Hi,
About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked. Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some tips but with no meaningful result. I need something reliable and I'm willing to pay for this service. RIPE Atlas falls in the category of 'best effort'.
RIPE Atlas probes? you just plug them intoa working network with DHCP and away they go - I'd investigate why it doesnt work - RIPE expect probe users to be technically proficient and that the networks that the probes are on arent RIPEs to debug/troubleshoot. once you have a working one iy can do tests but you then also have access to the testing system that they offer allowing you to do on-demand tests for various things from probes around the world whever you want - depending on how many points you have. I have a few million or so points :-) alan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:38:28PM -0200, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote a message of 45 lines which said:
About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked. Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some tips but with no meaningful result.
Like most people, I have a very good experience with RIPE Atlas probes. If they fail (it never happened to me), there is a very comprehensive FAQ <https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/#troubleshooting> and the nice people on the user mailing list (remember it is a community service, the RIPE-NCC is not a commercial support team) are very responsive.
Hello. Have you checked out some of the website monitoring sites? I know Hyperspin has a free test for most of their locations: http://www.hyperspin.com/en/quicktest.php UptimeRobot, has free monitoring for up to 50 sites: http://uptimerobot.com/ If you want to check DNS propagation, I use: https://www.whatsmydns.net/ -- Matthew Kurt Kraut via NANOG 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.
Hi,
Kurt Kraut via NANOG 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.
Have you checked out some of the website monitoring sites?
Can also look at GTmetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/ which has rest api to launch real browser from a bunch of different locations and then can access the HAR file to see time to first byte, dns resolution, and a bunch of other metrics. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.nanog.org/INgQIGE6#waterfall Full disclosure, GT owns it (but you can do everything you want with free api). Cheers, Alex
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
Hi, On 11/18/2015 05:28 PM, Kurt Kraut via NANOG wrote:
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.
As just suggested off-list, https://ring.nlnog.net/ might be worth a look. It requires sponsorship of a box on your own network to join though. Best, Marco
participants (10)
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A.L.M.Buxey＠lboro.ac.uk -
Alex Krohn -
Christopher Morrow -
Janusz Jezowicz -
Kurt Kraut -
Marco Gruß -
Matthew McGehrin -
Mick O Donovan -
Stephane Bortzmeyer -
William Herrin