I am trying to use the inputs.ping input plugin to ping a couple of hundred hosts.
I keep getting
2018-02-12T15:48:15Z E! Error in plugin [inputs.ping]: Command timed out.
Does the inputs.ping plugin ping hosts consecutively or multiplex the ping to mulitpule hosts at the same time?
So If I want to ping 500+ hosts what do I have to do in order to ping all the hosts and not generate errors/gather statistics from every host.
I did some more research and doing a ps -ef|grep ping on the command line appears to show that each host gets it’s own ping command spawned.
It also appears that " Error in plugin [inputs.ping]: Command timed out." is because two of the hosts where offline. Is there any way to show which hosts are causing the inputs.ping to time out?
I doesn’t look like there is a way to see which host is timing out, could you open an issue on the Telegraf github?
am going to use PING for 100+ hosts, so far was testing with about 10 machines.
In case of timing out or host is not available, can’t we use DEADMAN in this case ?
Thanks, I submitted inputs.ping #3816
