# Incrementally measuring my internet speed with Prometheus

DevFeed: [Incrementally measuring my internet speed with Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incrementally-measuring-my-internet-speed-with-prometheus-37846.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/speedtest-prometheus/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k3s.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Helm charts](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/helm-charts.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [dashboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboard.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [helm-charts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/helm-charts.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/k3s.md>), [measuring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/measuring.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [modem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modem.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [providers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/providers.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on measuring home internet speed every 30 minutes with a custom Prometheus exporter, storing the results in a time-series database, and visualizing them in Grafana.

## Source excerpt

I live in Brazil, and, if you're not familiar, internet usually sucks here.