SmokePing is described as 'Deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network' and is a Network Monitor in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SmokePing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Homebrew and Docker apps. The best SmokePing alternative is Tracebar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SmokePing are mtr, PingPlotter, Trippy and Ping Tracer.
TraceBar puts a live traceroute in your macOS menubar. It continuously monitors the network path to any host, showing every hop’s latency, packet loss, and route changes in real time.
mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
Netherlands
EU
PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier.
United States
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping visually identify the source of connectivity problems.
The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the measured throughput, loss, and other parameters.
United States
PingInfoView is a small utility that allows you to easily ping multiple host names and IP addresses, and watch the result in one table.
Israel
vmPing (Visual Multi Ping) is a graphical ping utility for monitoring multiple hosts. Numerous host monitors can be added and removed, and each monitor dynamically resizes with the application window. Color-coding allows you to tell at a glance the status of each host.
This is a simple ping application that displays real-time ping times to a specified host using a Deno backend, a WebSocket connection, and a WebView frontend with a Chart.js graph.
Tunisia
This specialized application allows you to perform periodical checks of multiple hosts, IPs, websites and, if required, even ports.
