gping 🚀

Ping, but with a graph.

Table of Contents

• Install 💿
• Usage 🎷

Install 💿

• macOS
  • Homebrew: brew install gping
  • MacPorts: sudo port install gping
• Linux (Homebrew): brew install orf/brew/gping
• CentOS (and other distributions with an old glibc): Download the MUSL build from the latest release
• Windows/ARM:
  • Scoop: scoop install gping
  • Chocolatey: choco install gping
  • Download the latest release from the github releases page
• Fedora (COPR): sudo dnf copr enable atim/gping -y && sudo dnf install gping
• Cargo (This requires rustc version 1.44.0 or greater): cargo install gping
• Arch Linux: pacman -S gping
• Ubuntu/Debian (Azlux's repo):

echo "deb http://packages.azlux.fr/debian/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azlux.list
wget -qO - https://azlux.fr/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gping

• Gentoo (dm9pZCAq overlay):

sudo eselect repository enable dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge --sync dm9pZCAq
sudo emerge net-misc/gping::dm9pZCAq

Usage 🎷

Just run gping [host].

$ gping --help
gping 1.2.0
Ping, but with a graph.

USAGE:
    gping [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [hosts-or-commands]...

FLAGS:
        --cmd                Graph the execution time for a list of commands rather than pinging hosts
    -h, --help               Prints help information
    -4                       Resolve ping targets to IPv4 address
    -6                       Resolve ping targets to IPv6 address
    -s, --simple-graphics    Uses dot characters instead of braille
    -V, --version            Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -b, --buffer <buffer>                    Determines the number of seconds to display in the graph. [default: 30]
    -n, --watch-interval <watch-interval>    Watch interval seconds (provide partial seconds like '0.5') [default: 0.5]

ARGS:
    <hosts-or-commands>...    Hosts or IPs to ping, or commands to run if --cmd is provided.