tcping ☆

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Description:
TCP connect to the given IP/port combo

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Networking

Tags: networking diagnostics cli tcp monitoring

Install: brew install tcping

About:
Tcping is a lightweight command-line utility that measures the time it takes to establish a TCP connection to a specific host and port. Unlike ICMP-based ping, it accurately tests the availability and latency of actual services running on a server. This makes it an essential tool for diagnosing connectivity issues with web servers, databases, and other network applications.

Key Features:

Measures TCP connection latency, not just host reachability
Simple, single-purpose command-line interface
Provides success/failure statistics for monitoring
Lightweight and fast, with no external dependencies

Use Cases:

Verifying if a remote server port is open and accepting connections
Measuring network latency to a specific application service
Automated monitoring scripts to check service uptime
Diagnosing firewall or network routing issues

Alternatives:

netcat (nc) – More versatile for reading/writing to sockets, but less convenient for simple latency checks.
curl – Used for application-layer protocol testing (HTTP), whereas tcping operates at the transport layer (TCP).

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 3:12am		0	VERSION_BUMP	1a1fdd92