I'm really perplexed that not more people demand these types of things in their status huds. I get connection skips all the time.
Personally, im a huge fan of zabbix, because of its flexibility and ease of use (been poking with it for 20 years so maybe im biased). I have it running for my homelab, which includes a remote server. I have a whole page of network stats, including graphs for data from `mtr`. Id rather have a dashboard to go look at than something that is always in my face, but thats because i dislike taking screenspace for things im not working on.
Unfortunately it's not open source, but I've not suffered any ill-effects yet.
#!/bin/sh
result=$(ping -n -c 1 -W 1 1.1.1.1 | perl -lne '/icmp_seq=1.*time=([0-9.]+) ms/ and print $1;')
if [ -z "$result" ]; then
echo "I: -- ms"
else
echo "I: $result ms"
fi
Sorry to hear about your storage dying on you.
Fat chance; you are my MVP today. Thank you and everyone else for chiming in!