The PingER Project Supported by DOE MICS

IEPM Home Page IEPM Site Map Network Monitoring PingER IEPM Papers and Presentations

PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) is the name given to the Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor end-to-end performance of Internet links. It is led by SLAC and development includes NUST/NIIT, FNAL, GATech and ICTP/Trieste. Originally in 1995 it was for the High Eneergy Physics community, however, this century it has been more focussed on measuring the Digital Divide from an Internet Performance viewpoint. The project now involves measurement to over 600 sites in over 125 countries, and we are actively seeking new sites to monitor and monitoring sites for this project, as well as people interested in our data.

• Introduction: What is PingER? (from ICTP Trieste), Brochure, Publication, Technical introduction, Examples of the use of PingER, download and install.
• Deployment: Shockwave map of PingER sites, Google map of PingER sites, interactive Java map (ViPER) of PingER sites, Hosts per Country by Region.
• Tables of: monitoring sites, remote sites, Beacon sites, Hosts/country/region, ping status of PingER hosts*, anomalous RTTs, List of countries and their regions, List of countries and their tlds.
• PingER Results
  • Report for ICFA
  • PingER Detail Reports , PingER Summary Reports , Pinger Metrics Motion Chart, today's analyzed and raw PingER data from SLAC, plots of RTT& Loss seen from SLAC (better to use plots of selected metrics for selected sites).
  • Data access by Web Services
  • Download CSV files of:
    • min, median, max for chosen metric between chosen sites, countries, regions etc., aggregated by country code
    • chosen metric for each region seen from SLAC, CERN & NIIT, build your own summary plots from analyzed files.
  • Case Studies:
    • SLAC (for a complete list see: here: East Asia, Mediterranean Fibre Outage IHY in Africa, Latin America, NIIT/Pakistan, Palestine, South Asia, .
    • Development Indices and PingER
    • ICTP: Africa, South Asia, and Latin America overall summary plots using Java.
  • World map animations of Ping results:
    • African Internet Weather,
    • Internet congestion wave: (46MB video file, 15MB video file)
    • Latency
    • Derived throughput
    • Ping from your host to the world
• Traceroute: Reverse Servers, Tutorial on Internet Monitoring & PingER ,
• The PingER Tools:
  • Pinger Meta Database (describes hosts etc.) Updates (Oracle NODEDETAILS/Guthrie html page):
    • Review Journaling*, Assign countries to a group*, Schema for database*, hints on NODEDETAILS*
    • XML dump of the PingER site database information (with extra information*), plus a Perl configuration file for PinGER database*.
  • Installation of PingER2, this is the preferred method since July 2005, there is some documentation here
  • Requirements for PingER Monitoring Sites and Requirements for WAN Hosts being Monitored.
  • Tool to search for suitable remote hosts to ping
  • PingER Performance Reporting Tool for Monitoring Hosts - Installation Notes, The ICFA-NTF Current Ping Plot Graphs - Implementation Notes also for Monitoring hosts.
  • PingER data validity management, rough notes
  • About the PingER Software for the Central Analysis Hosts
• Management: Down Sites*, Collection status, Gathering data, Maintaining PingER Database, Duties from PingER, Restoring PingER Historical Data (Also includes how to run the crontabs for analysing the data), PingER Raw Data Format,
• Downloading PingER Historical Data
• FNAL PingER site, ICTP PingER site