MonitorNetworkConnection

A tool that can be run via cron job which checks the connection to certain websites.

Why

This data can tell you if certain websites are often down or if your internet provider has regular outages.

Build it once:

npm install
npm run build
npm prune --production

Run as often as you want after this build:

npm run start # or: 'node .'

The config data is per default in config.json:

{
    "attempts": 5,
    "urls": [
        "google.de",
        "youtube.com",
        "en.wikipedia.org"
    ]
}

The data is per default created in data/data.csv:

DATE_ISO	URL	IP_ADDRESS	CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS	CONNECTION_STATE	CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_AVG	CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_MAX	CONNECTION_SPEED_MS_MIN
2020-05-19T03:13:22.715Z	google.de	172.217.18.163	5	CONNECTION	22.6187332	26.715923	19.612856
2020-05-19T03:13:22.717Z	youtube.com	172.217.23.174	5	CONNECTION	24.8670968	37.025768	18.336162
2020-05-19T03:13:22.717Z	en.wikipedia.org	91.198.174.192	5	CONNECTION	27.723534800000003	29.678412	25.775254

Add cron job:

crontab -e

Add entry: (this will create data points every 5 minutes)

*/5 * * * * node PATH/TO/CLONED/REPOSITORY