tcp-latency 0.0.5

Meassure latency using TCP.

tcp-latency

About

tcp-latency provides an easy way to measure latency using TCP.

Inspired by other similar tools, tcp-latency comes from the need of running network diagnosis/troubleshooting tasks with Python on serverless infrastructure (as many providers don't include ping/ICMP support) but should work too in any other environment with Python>=36.

Features

• Runs as a command-line tool or inside your code as a module.
• Custom parameters for a port, runs, timeout and wait time between runs.
• IPv4 (e.g 52.26.14.11) and domain (e.g google.com) host support.
• Human readable output when running as a command-line tool.
• Small and extensible.

Usage

tcp-latency can be used both as a module and as a standalone script.

Module

>>> from tcp_latency import meassure_latency
>>> meassure_latency(host='google.com')
[34.57]
>>> meassure_latency(host='52.26.14.11', port=80, runs=10, timeout=2.5)
[433.82, 409.21, 409.25, 307.09, 306.64, 409.45, 306.58, 306.93, 409.25, 409.26]

Note: If omitted, meassure_latency() arguments use the same defaults that command line mode.

Command-line

$ tcplatency -h
usage: tcp-latency [-h] [-p [p]] [-t [t]] [-r [r]] [-w [w]] h

Meassure latency using TCP.

positional arguments:
  host

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p [p], --port [p]    (default: 443)
  -t [t], --timeout [t]
                        (seconds, float, default: 5)
  -r [r], --runs [r]    number of latency points (int, default: 5)
  -w [w], --wait [w]    between each run (seconds, float, default: 0)

$ tcplatency google.com
google.com: tcp seq=0 port=443 timeout=5 time=32.91 ms
google.com: tcp seq=1 port=443 timeout=5 time=14.1 ms
google.com: tcp seq=2 port=443 timeout=5 time=16.26 ms
google.com: tcp seq=3 port=443 timeout=5 time=16.35 ms
google.com: tcp seq=4 port=443 timeout=5 time=15.63 ms

$ tcplatency 52.26.14.11 --port 80 --runs 3 --wait 0.5
52.26.14.11: tcp seq=0 port=80 timeout=5 time=269.45 ms
52.26.14.11: tcp seq=1 port=80 timeout=5 time=409.2 ms
52.26.14.11: tcp seq=2 port=80 timeout=5 time=409.14 ms

$ tcp-latency google.com -r 1
google.com: tcp seq=0 port=443 timeout=5 time=34.36 ms

Installation

Via pip:

pip install tcp-latency

How to contribute

1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.
2. Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).
3. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
4. Send a pull request and bug me until it gets merged and published.

Some things that would be great to have:

• Add at the end of human_output statistics (ping-like).
• Add documentation (Sphinx?).
• Add Ipv6 support.
• Add support for machine-readable output (JSON?XML?).
• Add automated testing and releases with CircleCI.
• Add codecov.
• Add to README.md a list of alternatives to tcp-latency.
• Improve formatting in human_output to feel more like ping.
• Improve test suite.
• Improve How to contribute information (pyenv, tox, pre-commit...)

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