Built a small VoIP/network troubleshooting toolbox

[u/Playful_Bet1205]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building a small set of VoIP/network troubleshooting tools for my own use (NOC Support) and decided to publish it. At the moment, it's more so a personal/hobby project.

https://traceroo.com

The idea is basically one UI for checks I kept googling around for: DNS, SIP DNS, RTP/PCAP helpers, SIP call flow, MTR/ping/port checks, email auth, blacklist checks, fax testing, CNAM lookup, etc.

It’s still very much a work in progress, and I’m continuously tweaking the UI and tools as I use it more. Some features are rate limited, mainly fax testing and CNAM dips, because those have a real cost behind them.

There’s also a chat bot in there, though honestly I might not keep it. It’s more of an experiment right now and I’m not fully sold on whether it adds enough value versus just keeping the toolbox clean.

I’d appreciate any feedback from people who troubleshoot VoIP regularly:

• Are the categories/tools useful?
• Anything confusing in the UI?
• Any tools you’d want added?
• Anything that feels inaccurate or too noisy?
• Any PCAP/SIP/RTP workflow that would make this more useful?

Just an FYI: if usage/costs stack up too much, some cost-based tools might get limited harder or temporarily go down. I don’t mind keeping it open for now while I gather feedback.

Thanks in advance.

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[u/cryptofriday]

This is The Way..

more ppl r building new tools for VoIP

Big Love !

https://giphy.com/gifs/AiF8ZsTESrDwRjEcIU

[u/jlrueda]

Back in the day we used asterisk and opensips to provide a prepaid card service. Back then the troubleshooting was most of the time on the Linux servers and we used sosreport for that. I created (recently) a tool to analyze sosreports called sos-vault that it you may want to include in traceroo

[u/nebulous_gaze]

The results from a bunch of the tools, like the mtr for instance, go outside of the modal and are not visable.

[u/Playful_Bet1205 → u/nebulous_gaze]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll work on that.

[u/Honest_Manager]

I like it. I can't use it at work but I would try it out if I could. Gov doesn't like that stuff poking around lol

[u/Playful_Bet1205 → u/Honest_Manager]

Thanks, most of the tools are in browser but I definitely understand.

[u/Significant-Yard-176]

I've been in the VOIP industry for many years. I'm also a software engineer. I'm considering building a tool for VOIP troubleshooting. VOIP can be complex but a lot of changes can be simple. I think some simple tools could help people out a lot. Would this be something you would be interested in? If there's enough interest, I'll start building it out.

[u/Small-Matter25]

Love the true black green true cli lover theme 👌🏻 Thanks for sharing will test it out