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Traceroute from a Collector #18

Closed woodsaj closed 8 years ago

woodsaj commented 8 years ago

Issue by mattttt Tuesday Aug 04, 2015 at 20:59 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/raintank/grafana/issues/396

For discussion...

This has come up a couple times, but clients have requested the ability to traceroute from a collector to an endpoint, so they can see the network path a collector takes.

I envision this functionality existing on the Collector Summary page, and triggering a popup/external window that communicates with the collector, opens a connection, and reports the traceroute back in real time.

woodsaj commented 8 years ago

Comment by Dieterbe Wednesday Aug 05, 2015 at 07:54 GMT

note that routes may be changing at all times. in fact, the reason why a ping check temporarily fails while it should normally succeed may be exactly due to a temporary routing change. so an "after the fact" traceroute could be very misleading. OTOH doing a traceroute everytime state changes from ok to error might be a bit too resource intensive? idea for a paying feature? thoughts @woodsaj @nopzor1200 @ctdk ?