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Monitor internet micro-cuts
(lemmy.ml)
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Depends on how much you want to set up. For my purposes, I just check for connectivity every minute, and record true or false as a new row in a sqlite database if there is connectivity.
This is what I use on my raspberry pi,
and I just have a crontab entry
* * * * * ~/connectivity_check/check.py >/dev/null 2>&1
to run it every minute.Then I just check for recent disconnects via:
Obviously, it's not as full-featured as something with configurable options or a web UI etc, but for my purposes, it does exactly what I need with absolutely zero overhead.
That's not exactly the solution I was looking for, but that was very instructive. Thank you.
Ah I see you mentioned the cuts are only a few seconds long. This wouldn't catch that very well.
If you have a server outside of your network you could simply hold open a TCP connection and report when it breaks, but I'll admit at that point it's outside of what I've had to deal with.