Ping returns this by default:
64 bytes from 203.173.50.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=57.746 ms
Is there some way I can get it to add the timestamp?
For example,
Mon 21 May 2012 15:15:37 EST | 64 bytes from 203.173.50.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=57.746 ms
I'm on OS X v10.7 (Lion) which seems to have some BSD version of ping.
On macos you can do
ping --apple-time 127.0.0.1
The output looks like
16:07:11.315419 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
16:07:12.319933 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.157 ms
16:07:13.322766 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms
16:07:14.324649 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.148 ms
16:07:15.328743 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms
The simpler option is just using ts(1) from moreutils (fairly standard on most distros).
$ ping 1.1.1.1 | ts
Feb 13 12:49:17 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
Feb 13 12:49:17 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=5.92 ms
Feb 13 12:49:18 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=5.30 ms
Feb 13 12:49:19 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=5.71 ms
Feb 13 12:49:20 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=5.86 ms
or
ping 1.1.1.1 -I eth0 | ts "[%FT%X]"
Allows for the same strftime format strings as the shell/date workaround.
I could not redirect the Perl based solution to a file for some reason so I kept searching and found a bash only way to do this:
ping www.google.fr | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done
Wed Jun 26 13:09:23 CEST 2013: PING www.google.fr (173.194.40.56) 56(84) bytes of data.
Wed Jun 26 13:09:23 CEST 2013: 64 bytes from zrh04s05-in-f24.1e100.net (173.194.40.56): icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=7.26 ms
Wed Jun 26 13:09:24 CEST 2013: 64 bytes from zrh04s05-in-f24.1e100.net (173.194.40.56): icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=8.14 ms
The credit goes to https://askubuntu.com/a/137246
If your AWK doesn't have strftime():
ping host | perl -nle 'print scalar(localtime), " ", $_'
To redirect it to a file, use standard shell redirection and turn off output buffering:
ping host | perl -nle 'BEGIN {$|++} print scalar(localtime), " ", $_' > outputfile
If you want ISO8601 format for the timestamp:
ping host | perl -nle 'use Time::Piece; BEGIN {$|++} print localtime->datetime, " ", $_' > outputfile
Try this line.
while sleep 1;do echo "$(date +%d-%m-%y-%T) $(ping -c 1 whatever.com | gawk 'FNR==2{print "Response from:",$4,$8}')" | tee -a /yourfolder/pingtest.log;done
You'll have to cancel it with ctrl-c tho.
terminal output:
ping -i 5 google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S: {}'
file output:
ping -i 5 google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S: {}' > test.txt
terminal + file output:
ping -i 5 google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S: {}' | tee test.txt
file output background:
nohup ping -i 5 google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S: {}' > test.txt &
just use sed:
ping google.com|sed -r "s/(.*)/$(date) \1/g"
I also need this to monitor the network issue for my database mirroring time out issue. I use the command code as below:
ping -t Google.com|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %a in () do (set /p "data=" && echo(!date! !time! !data!)&ping -n 2 Google.com>nul" >C:\pingtest.txt
You just need to modify Google.com to your server name. It works perfectly for me. and remember to stop this when you finished. The pingtest.txt file will increase by 1 KB per second (around).
Thank for raymond.cc. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/timestamp-ping-with-hrping/
My original submission was incorrect because it did not evaluate date for each line. Corrections have been made.
Try this
ping google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%+: {}'
produces the following output
Thu Aug 15 10:13:59 PDT 2013: PING google.com (74.125.239.103): 56 data bytes
Thu Aug 15 10:13:59 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=14.983 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:00 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=17.340 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:01 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=15.898 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:02 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=15.720 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:03 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=16.899 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:04 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=16.242 ms
Thu Aug 15 10:14:05 PDT 2013: 64 bytes from 74.125.239.103: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=16.574 ms
The -L 1 option causes xargs to process one line at a time instead of words.
From man ping:
-D Print timestamp (unix time + microseconds as in gettimeofday) before each line.
It will produce something like this:
[1337577886.346622] 64 bytes from 4.2.2.2: icmp_req=1 ttl=243 time=47.1 ms
Then timestamp could be parsed out from the ping response and converted to the required format with date.
Try this:
ping www.google.com | while read endlooop; do echo "$(date): $endlooop"; done
It returns something like:
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:20 AEDT 2017: PING www.google.com (216.58.199.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:20 AEDT 2017: 64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.199.36): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=2.86 ms
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:21 AEDT 2017: 64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.199.36): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=2.64 ms
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:22 AEDT 2017: 64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.199.36): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=2.76 ms
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:23 AEDT 2017: 64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.199.36): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=1.87 ms
Wednesday 18 January 09:29:24 AEDT 2017: 64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.199.36): icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=2.45 ms
Pipe the result to awk:
ping host | awk '{if($0 ~ /bytes from/){print strftime()"|"$0}else print}'
ping -D -n -O -i1 -W1 8.8.8.8
or maybe
while true; do \
ping -n -w1 -W1 -c1 8.8.8.8 \
| grep -E "rtt|100%" \
| sed -e "s/^/`date` /g"; \
sleep 1; \
done
You can create a function in your ~/.bashrc file, so you get a ping command ping-t on your console:
function ping-t { ping "$1" | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done; }
Now you can call this on the console:
ping-t example.com
Sa 31. Mär 12:58:31 CEST 2018: PING example.com (93.184.216.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
Sa 31. Mär 12:58:31 CEST 2018: 64 bytes from 93.184.216.34 (93.184.216.34): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=208 ms
Sa 31. Mär 12:58:32 CEST 2018: 64 bytes from 93.184.216.34 (93.184.216.34): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=233 ms
You did not specify any time stamp or interval for how long you would require such output, so I considered it to be an infinite loop. You can change it accordingly as per your need.
while true
do
echo -e "`date`|`ping -n -c 1 <IP_TO_PING>|grep 'bytes from'`"
sleep 2
done
Source: Stackoverflow.com