freifunk-berlin / bbb-configs

Ansible based configuration management openwrt mesh nodes in the city-wide backbone of Freifunk Berlin
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Monitoring: add more ping destinations #1014

Open FFHener opened 1 month ago

FFHener commented 1 month ago

@Noki and me would suggest adding more locations like

Noki commented 1 month ago

We should also try to setup a monitoring for ping drops for backbone locations as an indicator for routing issues

FFHener commented 1 month ago

The documentation of collectd says it should be collected automaticly

Whenever the read function of the plugin is called, it submits the average latency, the standard deviation and the drop rate for each host.

Noki commented 1 month ago

I know that we collect it. What I mean it that we try to setup alerts that look for locations with a high drop rate as an indicator for issues.

FFHener commented 1 month ago

Sorry, my bad

Noki commented 1 month ago

Pinging the direct neighbors with their olsr hosts would also be a nice addition.