Introduction

SoftPerfect Ping Monitor is a free desktop application that pings network hosts continuously, tracks their latency, packet loss and jitter, and shows the results three ways: a sortable table with sparklines, a grid of tiles, or a hop-by-hop trace of the route.

Each host is rated against thresholds you set, and when a problem persists Ping Monitor tells you on the desktop, by e-mail, or by running a program of your own. Everything stays in a local database: there is no account to create and nothing to subscribe to.

Key features

• Real-time monitoring: continuous ICMP ping at an interval you choose, plus optional TCP and HTTP/S probes.
• Three view modes: a sortable table with sparklines, a tile grid in three sizes, and a route trace that breaks the path down hop by hop.
• Detailed graphs: latency over five minutes to a week, scrollable back through the history you keep, plus a 24-hour quality bar.
• Alerts: sustained high latency, packet loss or failed probes, by desktop notification, e-mail or a program of your own.
• Tags & filtering: group hosts with coloured tags and filter any view down to the ones you care about.
• Windows taskbar widget: a live status summary in the taskbar, which shrinks to a dot count when space runs short.
• Cross-platform: Windows, macOS and Linux, on Intel, AMD and ARM64.

What people use it for

• Watching routers, switches, servers and other kit that ought to stay up
• Comparing latency to game servers in different regions
• Keeping tabs on web servers, cloud instances and VPS hosts
• Gathering evidence about a flaky internet connection for an ISP ticket
• Mapping how the network performs from one part of the world to another
• Home lab duty: NAS boxes, automation hubs and Raspberry Pis