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Speedtest.net Collector For InfluxDB and Grafana

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This tool is a wrapper for speedtest-cli which allows you to run periodic speedtets and save the results to Influxdb

Configuration within config.ini

GENERAL

Key Description
Delay Delay between runs

INFLUXDB

Key Description
Address Delay between updating metrics
Port InfluxDB port to connect to. 8086 in most cases
Database Database to write collected stats to
Username User that has access to the database
Password Password for above user

SPEEDTEST

Key Description
Server Comma sperated list of servers. Leave blank for auto

LOGGING

Key Description
Level Set how verbose the console output is

Usage

Before the first use run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Enter your desired information in config.ini

Run influxspeedtest.py

Custom Config File Name

If you wish to use a config file by a different name set an ENV Variable called influxspeedtest. The value you set will be the config file that's used.

Requirements

Python 3+

You will need the influxdb library installed to use this - Found Here You will need the speedtest-cli library installed to use this - Found Here

Docker Setup

  1. Install Docker

  2. Make a directory to hold the config.ini file. Navigate to that directory and download the sample config.ini in this repo.

mkdir speedtest
curl -o speedtest/config.ini https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barrycarey/Speedtest-for-InfluxDB-and-Grafana/master/config.ini
cd speedtest
  1. Modify the config file with your influxdb settings.
nano config.ini

Modify the 'Address =' line include the ip or hostname of your influxdb instance. Example:

Address = 10.13.14.200
  1. Run the container, pointing to the directory with the config file. This should now pull the image from Docker hub. You can do this by either running docker run or by using docker-compose.
  2. The docker run option.
docker run -d \
--name="speedtest" \
-v config.ini:/src/config.ini \
--restart="always" \
barrycarey/speedtest-for-influxdb-and-grafana
  1. The docker-compose option
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barrycarey/Speedtest-for-InfluxDB-and-Grafana/master/docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

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