add ping dashboard info and alarms (#13916)

Co-authored-by: Shyam Sreevalsan <shyam@netdata.cloud>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/web/gui/dashboard_info.js b/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
index 530f15e263..c61ad2bb12 100644
--- a/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
+++ b/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
@@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ netdataDashboard.menu = {
         info: 'Network latency statistics, via <b>fping</b>. <b>fping</b> is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to <code>ping</code>, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping versions after 3.15 can be directly used as netdata plugins.'
     },
 
+    'ping': {
+        title: 'Ping',
+        icon: '<i class="fas fa-exchange-alt"></i>',
+        info: 'Measures round-trip time and packet loss by sending ping messages to network hosts.'
+    },
+
     'gearman': {
         title: 'Gearman',
         icon: '<i class="fas fa-tasks"></i>',
@@ -7564,6 +7570,18 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
         '<a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle/#container-state-terminated" target="_blank">More info.</a>'
     },
 
+    // Ping
+
+    'ping.host_rtt': {
+        info: 'Round-trip time (RTT) is the time it takes for a data packet to reach its destination and return back to its original source.'
+    },
+    'ping.host_packet_loss': {
+        info: 'Packet loss occurs when one or more transmitted data packets do not reach their destination. Usually caused by data transfer errors, network congestion or firewall blocking. ICMP echo packets are often treated as lower priority by routers and target hosts, so ping test packet loss may not always translate to application packet loss.'
+    },
+    'ping.host_packets': {
+        info: 'Number of ICMP messages sent and received. These counters should be equal if there is no packet loss.'
+    },
+
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 };