gcping

⚠️ Deprecation Notice: gcping.com (including the hosted global.gcping.com/api/endpoints endpoint and pre-built CLI binaries in gs://gcping-release) is being deprecated and will be shut down, and this repository will be archived.

To measure network latency to Google Cloud regions, please use the official Google Cloud Network Intelligence Center Performance Dashboard, or deploy and self-host your own instance from this repository.

gcpping is both a command line tool and a webapp that reports median latency to Google Cloud regions. The webapp is hosted at gcping.com. To install the command line tool, see below.

Note: This is not an official Google product.

CLI Usage

gcping [options...]

Options:
-n       Number of requests to be made to each region.
         By default 10; can't be negative.
-c       Max number of requests to be made at any time.
         By default 10; can't be negative or zero.
-r       Report latency for an individual region.
-t       Timeout. By default, no timeout.
         Examples: "500ms", "1s", "1s500ms".
-top     If true, only the top (non-global) region is printed.
-csv-cum If true, cumulative value is printed in CSV; disables default report.
-url     URL of endpoint list. Default is https://global.gcping.com/api/endpoints

-csv     CSV output; disables verbose output.
-v       Verbose output.

Need a website version? See gcping.com

An example output:

$ gcping
 1.  [global]                   11.17568ms
 2.  [us-central1]              12.373109ms
 3.  [us-west3]                 29.203499ms
 4.  [northamerica-northeast2]  30.615139ms
 5.  [us-east4]                 33.401098ms
 6.  [northamerica-northeast1]  38.612769ms
 7.  [us-west1]                 43.041808ms
 8.  [us-east1]                 46.847258ms
 9.  [us-west4]                 53.438688ms
10.  [us-west2]                 57.659108ms
11.  [europe-west2]             103.371016ms
12.  [europe-west4]             111.966565ms
13.  [europe-west1]             112.327356ms
14.  [europe-west3]             114.245525ms
15.  [europe-west6]             118.966225ms
16.  [europe-central2]          128.008935ms
17.  [europe-north1]            136.796505ms
18.  [asia-northeast1]          142.480775ms
19.  [southamerica-east1]       147.324384ms
20.  [asia-northeast2]          156.088594ms
21.  [asia-northeast3]          168.205243ms
22.  [asia-east2]               170.763954ms
23.  [australia-southeast2]     188.310153ms
24.  [southamerica-west1]       206.412352ms
25.  [asia-southeast2]          210.029872ms
26.  [asia-south1]              256.2628ms
27.  [asia-south2]              276.434709ms
28.  [australia-southeast1]     396.915245ms
29.  [asia-east1]               417.147963ms
30.  [asia-southeast1]          496.648151ms

$ gcping -r us-east1
502.068712ms

$ gcping -top
us-west2

Installation

We build binaries for the following OS's and architectures:

• Linux 64-bit: https://storage.googleapis.com/gcping-release/gcping_linux_amd64_latest
• Mac 64-bit (x86): https://storage.googleapis.com/gcping-release/gcping_darwin_amd64_latest
• Mac 64-bit (Apple Silicon): https://storage.googleapis.com/gcping-release/gcping_darwin_arm64_latest
• Windows 64-bit: https://storage.googleapis.com/gcping-release/gcping_windows_amd64_latest

Installation looks something like this (changing the URL for your system):

curl https://storage.googleapis.com/gcping-release/gcping_linux_amd64_latest > gcping && chmod +x gcping