Detail panel & graphs
The detail panel graphs the selected host’s latency and the quality of its last 24 hours. Charts in the toolbar shows and hides it.
Latency graph
Vertical marks in the loss colour are pings that never came back. Hover over the graph to read the latency at any moment.
Ping Monitor keeps every reply of the last hour, minute averages for up to a week, and hourly averages for as long as your data retention allows. Further back, each point is an average, so the hover readout adds the fastest and slowest reply behind it – 12 ms (4-96) – to show what the average smooths over.
Time range and history
5m, 30m, 1h, 24h and 7d set how far back the graph reaches. Beside them, Live, 1 min or 1 hour says how fine the data on screen is.
- Drag the graph or turn the mouse wheel to scroll back in time; the label then shows the period on screen.
- Ctrl+wheel zooms between the ranges around the point under the cursor.
- Double-click the graph, or click the period label, to return to the present.
24-hour bar
Below the graph, one block per hour of the last day, coloured by that hour’s quality: green for excellent or good, yellow for fair, red for poor or bad, grey where there is no data. It shows at a glance whether a problem keeps to a schedule.
The graph’s colours, font and text size are set in Appearance settings.
Your connection is fine in the morning but stutters in the evening. If the yellow and red blocks of the 24-hour bar cluster around the same hours, you are seeing congestion at peak times rather than a fault. Switch to 7d to confirm the pattern repeats – evidence to take to your ISP.
Leave Ping Monitor running against a stable public host for a few days, then open the 7d range. The latency line and the loss marks give a dated record of when the connection misbehaved, far harder to wave away than “it feels slow”.