Re: [tool] octomon: a terminal network monitor to analyse your Internet connection

[Harry Hoffman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Simon,
Good on you! I installed Octomon yesterday. Fantastic tool, thanks for
giving back to the community.

Cheers,
Harry

On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM Simon Thorpe via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm Simon and I work at Cloudflare. I have leaned on the NANOG archives
> for years when chasing odd behaviour between a host and the wider internet,
> so I wanted to give something back and share a tool I built, in case it is
> useful to anyone here or to the people you support.
>
> https://octomon.dev
>
> octomon is an open-source terminal dashboard for the end-host view of a
> connection: per-target latency, loss and jitter, per-process and per-remote
> bandwidth, Wi-Fi signal, resolver health, path MTU, clock offset, and the
> ISP path from traceroute.
>
> I was sick of running a load of separate tools and scripts, piecing
> together the information to determine what was going on with my Internet
> connectivity. I also wanted to learn Rust, so this was a chance to tidy up
> all the scripts I've built over the past 30 years into a single cli tool
> for helping me diagnose my device to Internet connectivity.
>
> Quick video of me walking through it here...
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwBaSvUwfk
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
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