Logging internet speeds from the speedtest plugin and creating a graph, with using the official Ookla speedtest CLI

[dhanuhammer]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Am I willing to test this? 🧪

• [X] I will do my best to test this feature on the netlertx-dev image when requested within 48h and report bugs to help deliver a great user experience for everyone and not to break existing installations.

Can I help implement this? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

• [X] Yes
• [ ] No

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I saw that there is a page to monitor the devices but there should also be a page to show the historical speedtest data with the speedtest being run from the application. There should be a way to change the speedtest servers and other options.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a speedtest monitoring similar to device monitoring with historical data to check if the ISP is providing the bandwidth as per the subscription

Describe alternatives you've considered

There already is a project that monitors the network performance: https://github.com/mr-canoehead/network_performance_monitor Perhaps a few segments can be incorporated from here

Anything else?

https://github.com/mr-canoehead/network_performance_monitor

[jokob-sk]

Hi there,

there is already an internet speedtest plugin and a web services plugin check for external websites.

https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/tree/main/front/plugins/internet_speedtest https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/tree/main/front/plugins/website_monitor

I'm unsure how much work/value it would be to have one more plugin for speedtests. I understand that this one would be probably only for the devices themselves? Currently I'm leaning to probably no or yes if someone wants to write a plugin and maintain it. But building graphs into the plugin system is a challenge by itself. The app is already big and sometimes hard to maintain so I need to be sensible, what to support as unfortunately this is not my main job 😅. Let me think about it and see if others are interested in this feature.

Thanks, j

[dhanuhammer]

Hello Thanks for your reply. I didn't mean to ask for another plugin but to use the existing plug-in and create a graph from it's periodic data. If the speedtest runs every 30 mins it will generate a good graph and it can be used to know the speeds throughout the day. Similarly such data can be collected over a long time, average speeds of everyday in a month can be plotted over a year, and it can give good insight about the ISP. Then it would become a truly all in one application. I have seen some apps use grafana for this.

Also, may I know what speedtest does ur existing plug-in use? Like, Ookla?

On Fri, 30 Aug, 2024, 03:21 jokob-sk, @.***> wrote:

Hi there,

there is already an internet speedtest plugin and a web services plugin check for external websites.

https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/tree/main/front/plugins/internet_speedtest

https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/tree/main/front/plugins/website_monitor

I'm unsure how much work/value it would be to have one more plugin for speedtests. I understand that this one would be probably only for the devices themselves? Currently I'm leaning to probably no or yes if someone wants to write a plugin and maintain it. But building graphs into the plugin system is a challenge by itself. The app is already big and sometimes hard to maintain so I need to be sensible, what to support as unfortunately this is not my main job 😅. Let me think about it and see if others are interested in this feature.

Thanks, j

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[jokob-sk]

Hi @dhanuhammer ,

Thanks for the info.

The speed test library that the plugin is using is this one here: https://pypi.org/project/speedtest-cli/

This application shouldn't be an all-in-one application (and this also depends on the user, someone might consider core features something else). Still I will consider alternative display of plugins data in the future, but it would precede the rebuild of the eIntegrations -> Plugins section, which is not a small task. The code isn't easily maintainable and adding more complexity to it would make this even more difficult in the future.

If you are up for a challenge, you can help out - I'm thinking of rebuilding that page to use datables, as most of the application. Once that's achieved I would add support for charts, which would then be used to display the speed test data.