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ICMP (ping) monitoring

Raw reachability and packet loss — a real ICMP echo from every probe node.

Every ICMP (ping) monitor runs on the same spine as the rest of PulseTrace — probed from each region you pick, scored on every check, and streamed into one timeline where incidents open on their own, anomalies surface without a threshold to guess, and reports are generated for you. Point it at a target, choose an interval, and it's watched.

What each check verifies

  • ICMP echo reachability
  • Packet loss and round-trip time

The panel on the right is the real create-monitor screen — it fills itself in with a ICMP (ping) example, exactly what you'd type.

When to use it

For hosts, routers and network paths where reachability and packet loss are the question — a VPN gateway, an office router, a bare-metal server. It sends ICMP echo from each region and records loss and round-trip time.

What an alert looks like

vpn-gw-1 is DOWN — 100% packet loss from all regions for 3 consecutive checks.

Plan availability

Every plan, including Free.

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Questions about ICMP (ping) monitoring

My host blocks ping — what then?
Use a TCP monitor on a port the host does expose; ICMP is only right when the host answers echo requests.