Table view

The table view is Ping Monitor’s spreadsheet-style home screen: every host on one line, every number in its own column, and a tiny history graph beside each. When you are looking after more than a handful of hosts, this is where you will spend most of your time – sort by any column and the trouble floats straight to the top.

Columns

Name

Whatever you called the host when you added it, or its address if you did not.

Address

The IP address or hostname being monitored. Enter a hostname and it is resolved first, then pinged by address.

Latency

The most recent round-trip time in milliseconds, or a dash (–) if the host did not answer.

History

A sparkline of recent latency – green for good, yellow for degraded, red for critical or timed out. Its shape matters as much as its height: a steady line and a spiky one can share the same average.

Loss

The share of pings that went unanswered over the recent history window.

Jitter

How much the latency wanders, in milliseconds – the average deviation from the mean. Jitter is what makes calls and games feel bad even when the average looks respectable.

Quality

Latency, loss and jitter rolled into a single verdict.

Status indicators

The coloured dot beside each name is the quick version:

• Green: answering within your “good” latency threshold.
• Yellow: answering, but slower than the degraded threshold or losing some packets.
• Red: past the critical threshold, losing packets badly, or not answering at all.
• Grey: nothing to report yet – monitoring has not started, or the host is disabled.

Sorting and selecting

Click a column header to sort by it, click again to flip the direction. Selecting a host updates the detail panel; right-clicking one offers Edit, Remove, Pause/Resume Monitoring and Trace Route.

Tags

Any tags a host carries appear as small coloured squares after its name, and the filter bar above the table narrows the list to whichever tags you click – useful when only the data-centre or VPN hosts matter for the next five minutes.