Answers: <p>This just sounds like normal monitoring to me, so yeah it makes sense.  You can use things like prometheus (free/open source) to do this (with an exporter).</p>
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  <li><a href="https://github.com/czerwonk/ping_exporter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/czerwonk/ping_exporter</a></li>
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  <p>Prometheus can keep a time series history and alert on the results (if they degrade).  Alerts can be sent to things like slack or pager-duty (so you can get a phone call or message immediately if it stops working).</p>
  <p>Lots of paid services exist for this too obviously.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Would it be sensible to use a ping from an internal site to an allow listed IP and detect the return to test that the allow list is working?  That would assume there is a ping service at the other end to respond.</p>
  
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Title: Allow / white list confirmation from internal target
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ThreadText: # Allow / white list confirmation from internal target
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-20)
  
  Would it be sensible to use a ping from an internal site to an allow listed IP and detect the return to test that the allow list is working? That would assume there is a ping service at the other end to respond.
  
  **Tags:** ip
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-01-20. Score: 1
  
  This just sounds like normal monitoring to me, so yeah it makes sense. You can use things like prometheus (free/open source) to do this (with an exporter).
  
  * <https://github.com/czerwonk/ping_exporter>
  
  Prometheus can keep a time series history and alert on the results (if they degrade). Alerts can be sent to things like slack or pager-duty (so you can get a phone call or message immediately if it stops working).
  
  Lots of paid services exist for this too obviously.
  
  
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