Ping with timestamp on Windows CLI

WindowsCmdTimestampPing

Windows Problem Overview


On the Windows command prompt cmd, I use ping -t to 10.21.11.81

Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3889ms TTL=238
Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3738ms TTL=238
Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3379ms TTL=238

Are there any possibilities to get an output like this?

10:13:29.421875 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3889ms TTL=238
10:13:29.468750 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3738ms TTL=238
10:13:29.468751 Reply from 10.21.11.81: bytes=32 time=3379ms TTL=238

Please note that I wanna achieve this with only commands provided by CMD

Windows Solutions


Solution 1 - Windows

WindowsPowershell:

option 1

ping.exe -t COMPUTERNAME|Foreach{"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_}

option 2

Test-Connection -Count 9999 -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME | Format-Table @{Name='TimeStamp';Expression={Get-Date}},Address,ProtocolAddress,ResponseTime

Solution 2 - Windows

@echo off
    ping -t localhost|find /v ""|cmd /q /v:on /c "for /l %%a in (0) do (set "data="&set /p "data="&if defined data echo(!time! !data!)" 

note: code to be used inside a batch file. To use from command line replace %%a with %a

Start the ping, force a correct line buffered output (find /v), and start a cmd process with delayed expansion enabled that will do an infinite loop reading the piped data that will be echoed to console prefixed with the current time.

2015-01-08 edited: In faster/newer machines/os versions there is a synchronization problem in previous code, making the set /p read a line while the ping command is still writting it and the result are line cuts.

@echo off
    ping -t localhost|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %%a in () do (set /p "data=" && echo(!time! !data!)&ping -n 2 localhost>nul"

Two aditional pause commands are included at the start of the subshell (only one can be used, but as pause consumes a input character, a CRLF pair is broken and a line with a LF is readed) to wait for input data, and a ping -n 2 localhost is included to wait a second for each read in the inner loop. The result is a more stable behaviour and less CPU usage.

NOTE: The inner ping can be replaced with a pause, but then the first character of each readed line is consumed by the pause and not retrieved by the set /p

Solution 3 - Windows

You can do this in Bash (e.g. Linux or WSL):

ping 10.0.0.1 | while read line; do echo `date` - $line; done

Although it doesn't give the statistics you usually get when you hit ^C at the end.

Solution 4 - Windows

Batch script:

@echo off

set /p host=host Address: 
set logfile=Log_%host%.log

echo Target Host = %host% >%logfile%
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('ping %host% -n 1 ') do (echo %%A>>%logfile% && GOTO Ping)
:Ping
for /f "tokens=* skip=2" %%A in ('ping %host% -n 1 ') do (
	echo %date% %time:~0,2%:%time:~3,2%:%time:~6,2% %%A>>%logfile%
	echo %date% %time:~0,2%:%time:~3,2%:%time:~6,2% %%A
	timeout 1 >NUL 
	GOTO Ping)

This script will ask for which host to ping. Ping output is output to screen and log file. Example log file output:

Target Host = www.nu.nl
Pinging nu-nl.gslb.sanomaservices.nl [62.69.166.210] with 32 bytes of data: 
24-Aug-2015 13:17:42 Reply from 62.69.166.210: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=250
24-Aug-2015 13:17:43 Reply from 62.69.166.210: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=250
24-Aug-2015 13:17:44 Reply from 62.69.166.210: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=250

Log file is named LOG_[hostname].log and written to same folder as the script.

Solution 5 - Windows

This might help someone : [Needs to be run in Windows PowerShell]

ping.exe -t 10.227.23.241 |Foreach{"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_} >> Ping_IP.txt

-- Check for the Ping_IP.txt file at the current directory or user home path.

Above command gives you output in a file like below ;

9/14/2018 8:58:48 AM - Pinging 10.227.23.241 with 32 bytes of data:
9/14/2018 8:58:48 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:49 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:50 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:51 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:52 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:53 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=117
9/14/2018 8:58:54 AM - Reply from 10.227.23.241: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=117

Solution 6 - Windows

On Windows

You can use one of the other answers.

On Unix/Linux

while :;do ping -n -w1 -W1 -c1 10.21.11.81| grep -E "rtt|100%"| sed -e "s/^/`date` /g"; sleep 1; done

Or as function pingt for your ~/.bashrc:

pingt() {
  while :;do ping -n -w1 -W1 -c1 $1| grep -E "rtt|100%"| sed -e "s/^/`date` /g"; sleep 1; done
}

source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26666549/1069083

Solution 7 - Windows

This might fit the bill for later Windows versions:

for /l %i in (1,0,2) do @echo|cmd /v:on /c set /p=!time! & ping -n 1 10.21.11.81 | findstr "Reply timed" && timeout /t 2 > nul:

Solution 8 - Windows

I think my code its what everyone need:

ping -w 5000 -t -l 4000 -4 localhost|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul &for /l %a in () do (for /f "delims=*" %a in ('powershell get-date -format "{ddd dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss}"') do (set datax=%a) && set /p "data=" && echo([!datax!] - !data!)&ping -n 2 localhost>nul"

to display:

[Fri 09-Feb-2018 11:55:03] - Pinging localhost [127.0.0.1] with 4000 bytes of data:
[Fri 09-Feb-2018 11:55:05] - Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=4000 time<1ms TTL=128
[Fri 09-Feb-2018 11:55:08] - Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=4000 time<1ms TTL=128
[Fri 09-Feb-2018 11:55:11] - Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=4000 time<1ms TTL=128
[Fri 09-Feb-2018 11:55:13] - Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=4000 time<1ms TTL=128

note: code to be used inside a command line, and you must have powershell preinstalled on os.

Solution 9 - Windows

Try this:

Create a batch file with the following:

echo off

cd\

:start

echo %time% >> c:\somedirectory\pinghostname.txt

ping pinghostname >> c:\somedirectory\pinghostname.txt

goto start

You can add your own options to the ping command based on your requirements. This doesn't put the time stamp on the same line as the ping, but it still gets you the info you need.

An even better way is to use fping, go here http://www.kwakkelflap.com/fping.html to download it.

Solution 10 - Windows

Use

ping -D 8.8.8.8

From the man page

-D     Print timestamp (unix time + microseconds as in gettimeofday) before each line

Output

[1593014142.306704] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=120 time=13.7 ms
[1593014143.307690] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=120 time=13.8 ms
[1593014144.310229] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=120 time=14.3 ms
[1593014145.311144] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=120 time=14.2 ms
[1593014146.312641] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=120 time=14.8 ms

Solution 11 - Windows

Try this instead:

ping -c2 -s16 sntdn | awk '{print NR " | " strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S") " | " $0  }'

Check if it suits you

Solution 12 - Windows

ping -t wwww.google.com|cmd /q /v /c “(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %a in () do (set /p “data=” && echo(!date! !time! !data!)&ping -n 2 wwww.google.com>nul”

Solution 13 - Windows

Another powershell method (I only wanted failures)

$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$target="192.168.0.1"
Write-Host "$(Get-Date -format 's') Start ping to $target"
while($true){
    $reply = $ping.send($target)
    if ($reply.status -eq "Success"){
        # ignore success    
        Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
    }
    else{
        Write-Host "$(Get-Date -format 's') Destination unreachable" $target
    
    }
}

Solution 14 - Windows

I also need this to monitor the network issue for my database mirroring time out issue. I use the command code as below:

ping -t Google.com|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %a in () do (set /p "data=" && echo(!date! !time! !data!)&ping -n 2 Google.com>nul" >C:\pingtest.txt

You just need to modify Google.com to your server name. It works perfectly for me. and remember to stop this when you finished. The pingtest.txt file will increase by 4.5 KB per min (around).

Thank for raymond.cc. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/timestamp-ping-with-hrping/

Solution 15 - Windows

An enhancement to MC ND's answer for Windows.
I needed a script to run in WinPE, so I did the following:

@echo off
SET TARGET=192.168.1.1
IF "%~1" NEQ "" SET TARGET=%~1

ping -t %TARGET%|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %%a in () do (set /p "data=" && echo(!time! !data!)&ping -n 2 localhost >nul"

This can be hardcoded to a particular IP Address (192.168.1.1 in my example) or take a passed parameter. And as in MC ND's answer, repeats the ping about every 1 second.

Solution 16 - Windows

Simple :

@echo off

set hostName=www.stackoverflow.com
set logfile=C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\PING_LOG\NetworkLog\Log_%hostName%.text
echo Network Loging Running %hostName%...
echo Ping Log %hostName% >>%logfile%

:Ping
for /f "tokens=* skip=2" %%A in ('ping %hostName% -n 1 ') do (
    echo %date% %time:~0,2%:%time:~3,2%:%time:~6,2% %%A>>%logfile%
    timeout 1 >NUL
    GOTO Ping)

Solution 17 - Windows

Instead of having the additional ping -n 2 localhost at the end of the loop, you can just add the character R before !data! since the only possibilities are Reply or Request. The first character is consumed from the pause>nul. So instead of having the following expression:

ping localhost -t -l 4|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %%a in () do (set /p data=&echo(!date! !time! !data!)&ping -n 2 localhost>nul"

You can use this expression:

ping localhost -t -l 4|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %%a in () do (set /p data=&echo(!date! !time! R!data!)&pause>nul"

Which produces the same output eg.:

22:34:49.49 Reply from 172.217.4.46: bytes=4 time=14ms TTL=116
22:34:50.49 Reply from 172.217.4.46: bytes=4 time=14ms TTL=116
22:34:55.47 Request timed out.
22:34:56.49 Reply from 172.217.4.46: bytes=4 time=14ms TTL=116
22:34:57.49 Reply from 172.217.4.46: bytes=4 time=14ms TTL=116

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