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SmokePing: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SmokePing is a tool for measuring, storing and displaying latency, latency distribution and packet loss. A daemon runs measurements using a range of probes, from simple ping to web requests and custom protocols, and RRDtool stores the data and draws the graphs. An alarm system reacts to configurable latency patterns, and the web interface offers graph zooming and multi-target graphs. In a master/slave setup, several measurement points test the same target in parallel. SmokePing is written in Perl and you run it yourself on a Unix-like system.

The author is Tobias Oetiker of OETIKER+PARTNER AG. The source code is published on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 licence. Because it is self-hosted, measurement data stays on your own infrastructure and no vendor service or foreign parent company is involved. You decide where the data is stored and who can access it. For European organisations it is a building block for keeping network monitoring under their own control.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Network & Monitoring
Type
Product
Website
oss.oetiker.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SmokePing

The European alternatives to SmokePing come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with SmokePing

SmokePing is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so SmokePing scores best on data residency.

SmokePing is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs SmokePing together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to SmokePing?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SmokePing include Centreon, Checkmk and collectd. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SmokePing?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SmokePing include Centreon, Checkmk, collectd and Healthchecks.io. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is SmokePing GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SmokePing is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes SmokePing an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Network & Monitoring

Network & Monitoring: Network monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management and observability. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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