Monitoring
Ping monitoring
Is the host reachable, and how long is the round trip from each network?
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What it checks
Ping monitoring
Latency measured from more than one network is the reading that matters: a single number tells you the host answered, several tell you whether the problem is the host or the path.
Private addresses are refused by the public probes on purpose. An agent inside your network handles those.
- An ICMP echo from every location assigned to the monitor.
- Round-trip time per location, so a route that got slower is visible before it fails.
- Reachability history, kept for 90 days.
It comes with the rest of the platform
Every monitor type shares the same alerting, the same status pages and the same map: escalation with on-call hours, a public status page, checks from independent networks, and agents for anything the internet cannot reach.
Questions
- Can I ping a device on my LAN?
- Yes, through an agent installed inside that network. The public probes reject private ranges rather than reporting them down.
- Does a firewall dropping ICMP break this?
- It makes the host look down, because it is indistinguishable from down over ICMP. Use a TCP port check against that host instead.