# Internet Speed Monitor Input Plugin

The `Internet Speed Monitor` collects data about the internet speed on the
system.

On some systems, the default settings may cause speed tests to fail; if this
affects you then try enabling `memory_saving_mode`. This reduces the memory
requirements for the test, and may reduce the runtime of the test. However,
please be aware that this may also reduce the accuracy of the test for fast
(>30Mb/s) connections. This setting enables the upstream
[Memory Saving Mode](https://github.com/showwin/speedtest-go#memory-saving-mode)

## Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support
additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to
modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc.
See the [CONFIGURATION.md][CONFIGURATION.md] for more details.

[CONFIGURATION.md]: ../../../docs/CONFIGURATION.md#plugins

## Configuration

```toml @sample.conf
# Monitors internet speed using speedtest.net service
[[inputs.internet_speed]]
  ## This plugin downloads many MB of data each time it is run. As such
  ## consider setting a higher interval for this plugin to reduce the
  ## demand on your internet connection.
  # interval = "60m"

  ## Enable to reduce memory usage
  # memory_saving_mode = false

  ## Caches the closest server location
  # cache = false

  ## Server ID exclude filter
  ## Allows the user to exclude or include specific server IDs received by
  ## speedtest-go. Values in the exclude option will be skipped over. Values in
  ## the include option are the only options that will be picked from.
  ##
  ## See the list of servers speedtest-go will return at:
  ##     https://www.speedtest.net/api/js/servers?engine=js&limit=10
  ##
  # server_id_exclude = []
  # server_id_include = []
```

## Metrics

It collects the following fields:

| Name           | field name | type    | Unit |
| -------------- | ---------- | ------- | ---- |
| Download Speed | download   | float64 | Mbps |
| Upload Speed   | upload     | float64 | Mbps |
| Latency        | latency    | float64 | ms   |

And the following tags:

| Name      | tag name  |
| --------- | --------- |
| Host      | host      |
| Server ID | server_id |

## Example Output

```sh
internet_speed,host=speedtest02.z4internet.com:8080,server_id=54619 download=318.37580265897725,upload=30.444407341274385,latency=37.73174 1675458921000000000
```