Unable to run Ping/SpeedTest Active Monitoring

[lunim]

When setting up a ping active monitor (plugins/active_monitoring_stats.lua), the ping operation fails. The following is in the log trace:

Ping.cpp:89] ERROR: Ping IPv6 socket creation error: Success
[Ping.cpp:83] ERROR: Ping IPv4 socket creation error: Operation not permitted
[Ping.cpp:67] ERROR: Unable to enable capabilities
[LuaEngineNtop.cpp.inc:1508] ERROR: Unable to create ping socket: are you root?

There doesn't seem to be any log trace for speedtest, it just publishes the alert: Speedtest execution failed

I set up this today, following the instructions in the README.