Show HN: Globalping – A community powered global network of probes

Category: infrastructure

Tags: networking, diagnostics, community-probes

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 8)

Globalping is a community-powered platform that lets users run network diagnostics like ping, traceroute, and dig from probes distributed worldwide. It's interesting because it democratizes network testing with a free API and multiple integrations (CLI, Slack, web), enabling anyone to troubleshoot routing, CDN, or DNS issues from any global location.

Target audience: devops, network engineers, backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/jsdelivr/globalping · TypeScript · 505 stars

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