Dropping packets? Find out where

When your connection is unstable but you don't know why, PingSleuth can help narrow it down. Ping every link in the chain at once from one window to find which is failing. No more using multiple command prompts for ping -t. Save your common targets, initiate traceroute or SSH, set failure thresholds, log to a file, and more.

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PingSleuth

features

See exactly where it's breaking

Each target gets its own row with live stats over the last 50 pings: packet loss, average, min and max latency, jitter, time since the last drop, and a bar chart of recent history.

drill down

Expand a target to see the whole story

See a chart covering up to the last 3,600 pings, with every drop marked. Beside it are uptime and average latency since monitoring started, and a list of recent outages with how long each lasted and how many pings were lost.

An expanded row showing 95.6% uptime, a latency chart with five drops marked in red, and a list of recent outages.

An expanded row in dark mode showing 100% uptime and a latency chart with periodic spikes.

traceroute

See the whole path

Run a traceroute to any target and see each hop with its host name and response times. Spot something odd? Start monitoring the hops you pick, or all of them, in one click.

Traceroute to Google DNS: eight hops with addresses, host names and three probe times each.

right-click

SSH and Telnet, in the same place

Right-click any row to open an SSH or Telnet session with the client of your choice.

The right-click menu on a row, with Stop, Show details, Traceroute, SSH, Telnet, Rename, Save to library, Move, Reset statistics, Copy and Remove.

The SSH dialog asking for a username and port.

thresholds

Choose your own definitions

Rows turn green, yellow or red based on your rules for latency, packet loss, and more, all measured over the rolling window.

Row colour threshold settings for latency, packet loss, consecutive drops and recent drops.

everything else

The details that matter

Saved targets in folders

Organise hosts by site, customer or room in folders and subfolders. Drag and drop to rearrange, double-click to monitor one, or start a whole folder at once.

Logs that open in Excel

Every ping and every outage is written to plain text files, one per target per day, that open cleanly in Excel. Traceroutes are saved too.

Pick up where you left off

Your saved targets and settings are waiting next time you open it, and PingSleuth can start pinging them as soon as it launches.

History on every row

A small bar chart of the last 50 pings on each row, so flapping connections stand out at a glance.

Your names, your order

Give targets friendly names like "Upstairs Wi-Fi AP" and drag rows into whatever order makes sense to you.

Light and dark

Follows your Windows theme by default, or pick one yourself in Options.

coming soon

Stop guessing. Start sleuthing.

Next time the network acts up, open it, add a few targets, and see what's breaking.

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