[5 Mins Docker] Build Your Own Network Latency Monitoring Sites Using Smokeping

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1 Log into https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

2 Create an instance then paste following docker run command in

COPY: ctrl + ins

PASTE: ctrl + shift + v

docker run -d \
--name=smokeping \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=America/New_York \
-p 9080:80 \
-v /home/config/smokeping:/config \
-v /home/data/smokeping:/data \
--restart unless-stopped \
linuxserver/smokeping

3 Click port 9080 to open Smokeping page in a new tab

4 configuration files : Probes, Targets

[node1] (local) [email protected] /home/config/smokeping
Alerts             General            Probes             Targets            pathnames          smokeping_secrets
Database           Presentation       Slaves             httpd.conf         site-confs         ssmtp.conf
[node1] (local) [email protected] /home/config/smokeping
$ vi Targets 
[node1] (local) [email protected] /home/config/smokeping
$ docker restart smokeping 
smokeping

• johnyan2/smokeping-netsec

version: '3'
services:
  smokeping:
    image: johnyan2/smokeping-netsec:latest
    container_name: smokeping

    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./data:/data
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    restart: always
    stop_grace_period: 1m

Notes:

• You might need to change port from 80 to some other ports you allowed in your security group or firewall acl, such as 8080. 
• You might need to remove the line : /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro if you are having this error:

Or create folder structure to keep the data on the docker host:

• mkdir /root/docker_data/smokeping
• cd /root/docker_data/smokeping

docker run -d \
--name=smokeping \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e TZ=America/New_York \
-p 6080:80 \
-v /root/data/docker_data/smokeping/config:/config \
-v /root/data/docker_data/smokeping/data:/data \
-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
--restart always \
johnyan2/smokeping-netsec:latest

[root@centos7-docker-portainer smokeping]# docker-compose up -d
Creating network "smokeping_default" with the default driver
Pulling smokeping (johnyan2/smokeping-netsec:latest)...
latest: Pulling from johnyan2/smokeping-netsec
61a6233aae96: Pull complete
a5444ecb192e: Pull complete
89496cf15342: Pull complete
8493e5e6f905: Pull complete
0751c3853bb6: Pull complete
5e5219ef760a: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:ada4d81f705780ebf8cfbb590add0745d6af5c96021b86626056ba434ddfeb90
Status: Downloaded newer image for johnyan2/smokeping-netsec:latest
Creating smokeping ... error

ERROR: for smokeping  Cannot start service smokeping: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container init caused \"rootfs_linux.go:58: mounting \\\"/etc/timezone\\\" to rootfs \\\"/var/lib/docker/overlay2/721182180a8ec91031da775086afa4b4f5d64c2c5b3db829867bbbce5474258b/merged\\\" at \\\"/var/lib/docker/overlay2/721182180a8ec91031da775086afa4b4f5d64c2c5b3db829867bbbce5474258b/merged/etc/timezone\\\" caused \\\"not a directory\\\"\"": unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

Run following commands in order to get the default configuration file replaced:

• timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
• docker-compose up -d   or “docker compose up -d”
• docker exec -d smokeping /bin/bash -c “cp /config.d/* /config/config.d”
• docker-compose restart    or  “docker compose restart”

*** Probes ***

+ FPing
binary = /usr/bin/fping

+ DNS
binary = /usr/bin/dig
lookup = google.com
pings = 5
step = 300

+EchoPingHttp
binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300
port = 80
url = /

+EchoPingHttps
binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300
port = 443
url = /

*** Targets ***

probe = FPing

menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of xxx Company. \
         Here you will learn all about the latency of our network.

+ NETSECSites
menu = 51SEC Sites
title = 51SEC Sites
++ 51sec
menu = 51sec.org
title = 51sec
host = 51sec.org
++ itprosec
menu = itprosec.com
title = itprosec
host = itprosec.com

+EPingHttpHttps
menu = HTTP HTTPS Response
title = HTTP HTTP Response Remote
++google
menu = Google HTTP
title = Google.org HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttp
host = www.google.org
url = /
accept_redirects = yes
++nsrc
menu = NSRC HTTPS
title = nsrc.org HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttps
host = nsrc.org
url = /
accept_redirects = yes
++MSN
menu = MSN HTTPS
title = MSN HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttps
host = www.msn.com
url = /
accept_redirects = yes

+ DNS
menu = DNS
title = DNS
probe = DNS
++ GoogleDNS1
menu = Google DNS 1
title = Google DNS 8.8.8.8
host = 8.8.8.8
++ GoogleDNS2
menu = Google DNS 2
title = Google DNS 8.8.4.4
host = 8.8.4.4
++ OpenDNS1
menu = OpenDNS1
title = OpenDNS1
host = 208.67.222.222

+ Local

menu = Local
title = Local Network
#parents = owner:/Test/James location:/

++ LocalMachine

menu = Local Machine
title = This host
host = localhost
#alerts = someloss

vim config/General

*** General ***

owner    = LinuxServer.io
contact  = [email protected]
mailhost = my.mail.host
cgiurl   = http://localhost/smokeping.cgi
syslogfacility = local0
# Save space, removed comments

display_name = Zhengzhou Mobile Broadband   # Here
@include /config/pathnames

*** Database ***
step     = 180
pings    = 20

cd ~/myserve/smokeping && vim config/Probes

*** Probes ***

+ FPing
binary = /usr/sbin/fping
packetsize = 1000
 
+ FPing6
binary = /bin/ping6   # This cannot be changed according to the official website because it is the container version


+ DNS
binary = /usr/bin/dig
lookup = baidu.com
pings = 5
step = 300

+ Curl
binary = /usr/bin/curl
forks = 5
offset = 50%

 *** Targets ***
 probe = FPing
 menu = Top
 title = Network Latency Grapher
 remark = Welcome to this SmokePing website.
 

 + services
 menu = Service latency
 title = Service latency (DNS, HTTP)
 
 ++ DNS
 probe = DNS   # Change probe to DNS here
 menu = DNS latency
 title = Service latency (DNS)
 
 +++ dns1
 host = dns1.example
 

root@instance-20240705-213604:/etc/smokeping/config.d# cat Probes 
*** Probes ***
+ FPing
binary = /usr/bin/fping

+ DNS
binary = /usr/bin/dig
lookup = google.com
pings = 5
step = 300

+EchoPingHttp
binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300
port = 80
url = /

+EchoPingHttps
binary = /usr/bin/echoping
forks = 5
offset = 50%
step = 300
port = 443
url = /

root@instance-20240705-213604:/etc/smokeping/config.d# cat Targets 
*** Targets ***

probe = FPing

menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of xxx Company. \
         Here you will learn all about the latency of our network.

+ NETSECSites
menu = 51SEC Sites
title = 51SEC Sites
++ 51sec
menu = 51sec.org
title = 51sec
host = 51sec.org
++ itprosec
menu = itprosec.com
title = itprosec
host = itprosec.com

+EPingHttpHttps
menu = HTTP HTTPS Response
title = HTTP HTTP Response Remote
++google
menu = Google HTTP
title = Google.org HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttp
host = www.google.org
url = /
accept_redirects = yes
++nsrc
menu = NSRC HTTPS
title = nsrc.org HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttps
host = nsrc.org
url = /
accept_redirects = yes
++MSN
menu = MSN HTTPS
title = MSN HTTPS response time
probe = EchoPingHttps
host = www.msn.com
url = /
accept_redirects = yes

+ DNS
menu = DNS
title = DNS
++ GoogleDNS1
menu = Google DNS 1
title = Google DNS 8.8.8.8
host = 8.8.8.8
++ GoogleDNS2
menu = Google DNS 2
title = Google DNS 8.8.4.4
host = 8.8.4.4
++ OpenDNS1
menu = OpenDNS1
title = OpenDNS1
host = 208.67.222.222

+ Local
menu = Local
title = Local Network
#parents = owner:/Test/James location:/

++ LocalMachine
menu = Local Machine
title = This host
host = localhost
#alerts = someloss

cd ~/myserve/smokeping/

touch resolve.conf && \
echo "nameserver 223.5.5.5" > resolve.conf && \
echo "options edns0 trust-ad ndots:0" >> resolve.conf

cat > Dockerfile << EOF
FROM linuxserver/smokeping:latest
COPY ./resolve.conf /etc/resolve.conf
EOF

cat > docker-compose.yml << EOF
version: "2.1"
services:
  smokeping:
    build: ./
    container_name: smokeping
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Shanghai
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./data:/data
    ports:
      - 8899:80
EOF

vim /usr/local/smokeping/config/Probe

+ DNS
binary = /usr/bin/dig
lookup = baidu.com
pings = 5
step = 300

sudo bash -c 'echo "SystemMaxUse=100M" >> /etc/systemd/journald.conf'
sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald

sudo sh -c 'truncate -s 0 /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log'

cat > /etc/docker/daemon.json << EOF
{
    "log-driver": "json-file",
    "log-opts": {
        "max-size": "20m",
        "max-file": "3"
    },
    "ipv6": true,
    "fixed-cidr-v6": "fd00:dead:beef:c0::/80",
    "eixperimental":true,
    "ip6tables":true
}
EOF

cat <<EOF > /etc/docker/daemon.json
{
  "live-restore": true,
  "storage-driver": "overlay2",
  "log-opts": {
    "max-size": "10m"
  }
}
EOF

systemctl restart docker

cat /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
    rotate 4
    weekly
    missingok
    notifempty
    compress
    delaycompress
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
    endscript
}

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