ping (network command)

Bitcoin Core 26.0 RPC

ping

Requests that a ping be sent to all other nodes, to measure ping time.

Result

Ping command is handled in queue with all other commands, so it measures processing backlog, not just network ping.

Result:
null    (json null)

Examples

> bitcoin-cli ping 
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "ping", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/