[[inputs.ping_native]]
  ## List of hosts to ping.
  hosts = ["8.8.8.8"]

  ## Number of pings to send per collection.
  # count = 1

  ## Interval, in s, at which to ping.
  # ping_interval = 1.0

  ## Per-ping timeout, in s (0 == no timeout).
  # timeout = 1.0

  ## Total-ping deadline, in s. Set to value equal to or lower than agent interval.
  # deadline = 10

  ## Interface or source address to send ping from.
  # interface = ""

	## Whether to ping ipv6 addresses.
  # ipv6 = false

Permission Caveat (non Windows)

Since this plugin listens on unprivileged raw sockets on Linux, the system group of the user running telegraf must be allowed to create ICMP Echo sockets. See man pages icmp(7) for ping_group_range. On Linux hosts, run the following to give a group the proper permissions:

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range="GROUPID   GROUPID"

Metrics:

ping
- tags:
  - source
- fields:
  - packets_transmitted (integer)
  - packets_received (integer)
  - percent_packets_loss (float)
  - ttl (integer, Not available on Windows)
  - average_response_ms (integer)
  - minimum_response_ms (integer)
  - maximum_response_ms (integer)
  - standard_deviation_ms (integer)
  - result_code (int, success = 0, no such host = 1, ping error = 2)

Example Output:

Windows:

ping,source=google.com average_response_ms=94.738085,maximum_response_ms=94.790376,minimum_response_ms=94.702181,packets_received=3i,packets_transmitted=3i,percent_packet_loss=0,result_code=0i,standard_deviation_ms=0.037823 1560553382000000000

Other:

ping,source=google.com average_response_ms=94.738085,maximum_response_ms=94.790376,minimum_response_ms=94.702181,packets_received=3i,packets_transmitted=3i,percent_packet_loss=0,result_code=0i,standard_deviation_ms=0.037823,ttl=52i 1560553382000000000