speedtest-cli-influx

Small docker container build for arm that uses speedtest-cli and posts the results to influxdb on a set interval.

Inspired on https://github.com/pedrocesar-ti/internet-speedtest-docker but with different parsing and influx api v2 POST.

Used resources:

• https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
• https://www.mankier.com/1/speedtest-cli
• https://github.com/pedrocesar-ti/internet-speedtest-docker/tree/master/speedtest

Build locally

You can build the docker container locally but take note of the cpu architecture you are building it on.

Run the following on a Pi or other architecture:

docker build -t deetoreu/speedtest-cli-influx:latest .

Deployment

The docker container is available on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/deetoreu/speedtest-cli-influx

Environment variables

These variables can be passed to the image from kubernetes.yaml or docker-compose.yml as needed:

Variable	Default	Description
TEST_INTERVAL		The test interval, according the sleep number convention
DB_HOST		Address of your influx instance
DB_NAME		The influx database in which you want to store the results

Docker

docker run example:

docker run -e TEST_INTERVAL=5m -e DB_HOST="192.168.1.100:8086" -e DB_NAME=speedtest deetoreu/speedtest-cli-influx:latest

or add the detach -d flag to run in the background

docker-compose.yml example:

version: '3.6'
services:
  speedtest:
    container_name: speedtest
    image: deetoreu/speedtest-cli-influx:latest
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TEST_INTERVAL: "5m"
      DB_HOST: "192.168.1.100:8086"
      DB_NAME: "speedtest"

I noticed some speed limitation which disappeared when network_mode was set to host