NetPulse — Network Health Monitor

NetPulse is a self-hosted network health monitoring dashboard purpose-built to apply and demonstrate BTech knowledge in communications and computer networks. It continuously polls network nodes using SNMP and ICMP, streams live telemetry over WebSockets, and presents the data as an interactive dashboard showing topology maps, latency heatmaps, and packet-loss trends. Unlike enterprise tools like PRTG or SolarWinds, NetPulse is lightweight, open-source, and deployable on a single machine — making it ideal for home labs, campus networks, and small infrastructure environments.

The Challenge

Most network monitoring solutions are either expensive enterprise products or complex systems requiring significant infrastructure. For a student or small team managing a lab or campus network, there is a gap for a simple, self-hosted tool that provides genuine visibility into network health without the overhead of enterprise tooling.

The Solution

Results & Impact

• Real-time visibility into network node health and performance
• Live latency and packet-loss tracking per network segment
• SNMP-based interface utilisation monitoring for managed devices
• WebSocket-driven dashboard with sub-second metric updates
• Deployable on any machine with Docker — no cloud required

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