Duck long-term network latency tester

How to use

• Find your binary and run from the command line as administrator/root (for ICMP listener)
  • Watch the pings roll in
  • Browse to http://localhost:14445 and watch the results
• Build from source with go build
  • Mac/Linux
    • Run duck with sudo ./duck <target_ip>
  • Windows
    • Run duck from administrator command prompt with duck.exe <target_ip>

Screenshots

Goals

• Be a better, in-place replacement for terminal ping command
• Capture high latency events in the background and make them clear on review

Features

• In-terminal ASCII latency charting
• Colorization of latency in terminal (Mac and Linux only)
• Statistics printed every 30 seconds
• Live web dashboard for visualizing latency over extended tests
  • Long-term chart with 30-second averaged samples
  • Short-term chart (last 10 minutes) with live results
  • Traceroute results
  • Traceroute Path tracking with latency averaging
  • Individual traceroute host tracking with latency averaging and incident counting
• Keeps history of ping performance older than 10 minutes as derezzed 30-second sample averages
• Traceroute performed every 30 seconds
  • Paths stored and path traversal tracked
  • Host DNS lookup
  • Average and Max latency tracked over time
• Stores pings, paths, and hosts to JSON files every minute

Roadmap

• Derezzing of ping results after 10 minutes
  • Exception to derezzeing is any high-latency event, with 5 minutes of high resolution context on either side
• Variable control from WebUI
  • Payload size
  • Latency threshold adjustments
• Jitter visualization