Table view
One host per line with every figure in its own column – the view to use once you are watching more than a handful of hosts. Sort by any column and the trouble rises to the top.
Columns
- Address
- A hostname is resolved first, then pinged by address. The coloured squares before it are the host’s tags.
- Latency
- The last reply, or a dash if it never came.
- History
- The last 60 pings. A steady line and a spiky one can share the same average.
- Loss
- Unanswered pings among the last 30.
- Jitter
- The average change in latency from one reply to the next, over the last 30 pings. Jitter is what makes calls and games stutter when the average looks fine.
- Quality
- Average latency and loss over the last 30 pings, graded on five bars, from Excellent to Bad, against your thresholds.
- Probes
- Appears once a host has a TCP or HTTP/S probe: 3/3 OK, or what failed, such as TCP 443 refused or HTTP 500.
Status dots
- Green: online – average latency within the Good threshold and under 2% loss.
- Yellow: degraded – slower than that, 2% loss or more, or a probe failing.
- Red: offline – no reply to the last three pings. The first reply brings the host back, yellow until the lost pings drop out of the last 30.
- Grey: no reply yet. A paused host shows a pause sign instead.
View → Legend shows the same with your current thresholds.
Filtering
The Quick filter box matches names and addresses. The tag bar above it shows only the hosts carrying the tags you click, and a count in the status line keeps only the hosts in that state. All three combine.
Someone says “the network feels slow” but not which service. Click the Degraded count in the status line, or sort by Loss and then Latency. The struggling hosts come to the top, their sparklines show whether the problem is constant or comes and goes, and selecting one fills in the detail panel.
Tag each host with its site, then click that tag in the filter bar before a call: the table shows just that site’s hosts, and a second click brings the rest back.