I am trying to track down the unit type for the distance in influxdb. I can see you have an interface for SpeedTestStatistics and you are using it in the influxdb file.

What unit of measurement is http.Server.Distance?

Hi,

it would be really cool to get an option to set a preferred server ID for testing.
If this server is unavailable the fallback should or can be to any server.

Thanks!

I have a 60 Mbps uplink, and my usual speedtest values are matching this - speedtest-cli, speedtest.net, nperf.com, etc. but docker-speedtest-influxdb is consistently showing results like this:

2020/06/19 07:40:49 Ping: 16.93 ms | Download: 92.52 Mbps | Upload: 81.37 Mbps,

ping and download values are in line with the other measurements.

any idea why is this happening?

After the recent changes, I noticed my container instance was constantly running its speed test, then crashing. After some digging, I found that my pihole servers were blocking ipapi.co, which was causing the below crash:

2021/02/05 16:45:37 **************************************************************,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 ******** Parser started with following commands **************,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  interval 3600,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  Distance Unit K,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  Host dokpv01,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  showExternalIp: true,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  influxHost http://grafana.server:8086,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  influxDB speedtest,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  influxUser influxdb_speedtest,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **  influxPwd is not Default,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **************************************************************,
2021/02/05 16:45:37 **************************************************************,
Get "https://ipapi.co/.../json/": dial tcp 0.0.0.0:443: connect: connection refused,
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference,
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x40 pc=0x69a68a],
,
goroutine 1 [running]:,
quadstingray/speedtest-influxdb/model.CheckIpLocation(0xc000270000, 0xe, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...),
	/go/src/quadstingray/speedtest-influxdb/model/geoip.go:47 +0x18a,
main.runTest(0xe10, 0x7ffffafa9d7e, 0x7, 0x7ffffafa9d87, 0x0, 0x7ffffafa9dc3, 0x1, 0x10000, 0x1, 0x7ffffafa9cfd, ...),
	/go/src/quadstingray/speedtest-influxdb/app.go:115 +0x26f,
main.main(),
	/go/src/quadstingray/speedtest-influxdb/app.go:42 +0xd8,

The main concern with the crash, is it was happening after the speed test was run. Since I had the container configured in Docker Swarm, it automatically restarted the container after it crashed. So it got stuck in a loop where it was running a speed test about once every 20 seconds.

After I whitelisted ipapi.co, the container runs normally.

I am not sure why ipapi.co was on a block list, but perhaps it should run a check to make sure it can resolve it prior to the speed test? Otherwise, more gracefully handle the "connection refused" error?

Docker version for reference:

root@dokpv01:~# docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           19.03.13
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.13.15
 Git commit:        4484c46d9d
 Built:             Wed Sep 16 17:02:52 2020
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.13
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.13.15
  Git commit:       4484c46d9d
  Built:            Wed Sep 16 17:01:20 2020
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.3.7
  GitCommit:        8fba4e9a7d01810a393d5d25a3621dc101981175
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc10
  GitCommit:        dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683

I'm trying to get this using the docker pull command from the README, but it tells me

access denied for speedtest-influxdb, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

I tried doing a docker login, but that didn't help.

hub image is still 0.9.2 and doesn't have the latest release.
https://hub.docker.com/r/quadstingray/speedtest-influxdb

Hi,

the container stops if one Speedtest fails or when Ookla do a server list maintenance and the url of the list is temporarily unavailable.

Is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks!

Hi There,

I’m only getting max 50Mbps / 3Mbps Download / Upload from this Docker image but my line is 1Gbps.

If I use a different speedtest method (for example https://hub.docker.com/r/atribe/speedtest-for-influxdb-and-grafana/ or speedtest-cli) running on the same host I get around 700-800Mbps Down and 400-500 Mbps up.

Also the ping stats seem to be inaccurate showing around 2-5seconds whereas the other methods above show around 10ms.

I’ve tried your grafana dashboard and viewed the stats from the Docker container logs - Any idea why the metrics are much worse than expected (and why they disagree so much with the other methods)?

Thanks!

Hi,
sometimes there are zero-values in measurement, like:

please add an option to repeat on zero or do not write to influxdb when one of the results is 0.

Thank you

Hello, i have a 1G line here, and get different speeds which is strange:
root@foo:/opt/docker-speedtest-influxdb# speedtest-cli --server 14704
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Telecom Italia Business (85.44.190.68)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Reggio Calabria) [634.49 km]: 24.935 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 433.86 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 435.34 Mbit/s

and on grafana for example Upload is always less then 100Mbit - do you have an idea what i am doing wrong?