Alternatives to gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as gping.
Trippy
Combines traceroute and ping into one live interface showing loss and latency at every hop along a route.
Trippy shows live loss and latency at every hop with GeoIP and AS lookups, so it locates where a problem starts rather than only graphing one target.
mtr
Combines traceroute and ping into one continuously updating report.
mtr combines traceroute and ping into a continuously updating per-hop report with a paste-friendly report mode, but it runs on macOS and Linux only.
PingPlotter
Visualizes latency and packet loss hop-by-hop to find where a connection breaks down.
PingPlotter is a graphical Windows and macOS tool with hop-by-hop views and long-running timelines, but it is closed source and its free tier is limited.
WinMTR Redux
Inspect network paths with the WinMTR Redux desktop tool.
WinMTR Redux is an open-source Windows desktop tool for repeated path measurements with IPv6 support, instead of a cross-platform terminal graph.
iputils
The Linux ping, tracepath, arping and related network utilities.
iputils provides the canonical Linux ping and tracepath with proper IPv6 support, but the tools are deliberately minimal and print plain numbers without a graph.
Also worth comparing
These listings name gping as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
fping
A command-line ping tool that sends ICMP echo probes to many hosts at once.
gping is MIT-licensed, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and graphs latency for several hosts live, but its output cannot be piped into scripts.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
iPerf3
Measures how fast a network link really is between two machines you control, which a speed test cannot.
bandwhich
Terminal tool that shows current network use broken down by process and connection.
Cloudflare Speed Test
A browser-based internet speed test that measures throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss.
Globalping
A free service for running ping, traceroute, DNS, MTR and HTTP tests from probes worldwide.
Waveform Bufferbloat Test
Browser test that measures internet speed and how latency rises under load.
Check-Host
Online tool that checks a host with ping, HTTP, TCP, UDP and DNS from servers worldwide.
