Is my website up or down, is it responsive or is it taking to long to load? Those are questions that every webmaster needs to ask from time to time. The best way to find out is to use monitoring tools that connect to the website, server, domain or IP address regularly. You find lots of great applications, both on the web and as desktop applications, to monitor websites.

Ping Monitor is a desktop gadget for Windows that can monitor up to five local or remote servers. As the name suggests, it pings the servers in intervals specified by the user of the application.

All information are presented then as a graph and in averages on the Windows desktop.

Up to five different URLs or IP addresses can be added to the gadget. Ping Monitor supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Enter an IP address or domain name in the first field, and an alias that is used to identify it in the second. The alias is shown on the main interface which is better than displaying IP addresses for instance. Still, you can select to use the domain name or IP address as the alias as well.

You can change the size of the gadget. You can also make changes to colors and the graphs under the other tabs in the configuration. Save settings to file. (File will be created - Path: %APPDATA% Filename: gadgetname_Settings.ini).

The gadget displays the maximum, average and current ping time as well as the number of errors while pining the server or IP address.

The graph visualizes those findings. You can ping a server manually with a click on the update icon next to the server's alias.

Ping Monitor is a handy gadget for Windows users who want to use the ping command to monitor websites or servers. The ping command is not as sophisticated as other server monitoring means, for instance by performing checks if a database is running on a server. Also try our Ping Tester gadget.

Note! For using IPv4 address ("212.1.94.3") you must change Decimal symbol from comma (",") to point (".").

1. Open Regional and Language Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Clock, Language, and Region, and then clicking Regional and Language Options.

2. Click the Formats tab, and then, in the Format list.

3. Click Additional settings, clicking the Numbers tab and change Decimal Symbol .





Special features

Average ping calculated for last 110 pings.

Double click on server name - refresh ping.

Double click on MAX ping - refresh max ping counter.

Double click on Lost (error) ping - refresh lost (error) ping.

Double click on Graph - refresh Graph (and also average ping).

Click on error message - show number of lost pings.

Added new pause/continue button ( ).

Release history

Version 8.1 - Fixed bug with wrong work when you type server name with slash at the end. Version 8.0 - Fixed bugs. Improve usability. Added support up to 15 servers. Version 7.9 - Added custom ping timeout for each server. Version 7.8 - Overhauled HTML. Version 7.7 - Fixed Dutch translation by Marcel Keiman (The Rambler). Version 7.6 - Added Dutch translation by Marcel Keiman (The Rambler). Version 7.5 - Improve code. Version 7.4 - Fixed bug with playing alarm sound if choose 0 losses. Version 7.3 - Update German translation by Jörg Bornwasser. Version 7.2 - Added Belorussian translation by Kanstantsin Melnikau. Version 7.1 - Added "Test sound" button in settings. Version 7.0 - Improve code. Version 6.9 - Change update notifier algorithm. Version 6.8 - Cosmetic changes in Japanese translation. Version 6.7 - Changed reset counters algorithm. Changed working with logs. Cosmetic changes. Added Japanese translation by Kosuke Kaizuka. Version 6.6 - Fixed bug with localization. Version 6.5 - Allow change graphs height from 20 to 99px. Fixed bug with pause. Version 6.4 - Up to 5 servers configuration save/load allowed. Added Czech translation by Jiří Škorpil. Version 6.3 - Added Hindi translation by Raunak Dutta. Version 6.2 - Fixed Polish translation by Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. Version 6.1 - Added Polish translation by Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. Version 6.0 - Added Slovak translation by Ivan Očadlík. Version 5.9 - Added auto reset counters settings. Version 5.8 - Added Italian translation by Carlo Adami. Version 5.7 - Added Indonesian translation by elda taluta. Version 5.6 - Added scale ping graph (#1 settings tab) and calculate average ping for server using log file (#7 settings tab). Version 5.5 - Added Catalonian translation by Jordi Bartrina. Version 5.4 - Added Autoscale DPI option (#3 settings tab). Version 5.3 - Added German translation by Christoph Heibutzki aka STSchiff. Version 5.2 - Improve code. Version 5.1 - Added French translation by Pascal Legendre. Version 5.0 - Added log files for each servers. Version 4.5 - Added "Set all freq. to" button in #1 settings tab. Version 4.4 - Added Hungarian translation by Andras Subicz. Version 4.3 - Added Turkish translation by Celal Osmanbas. Version 4.2 - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by Rafael "R4to0" Maciel Alves. Version 4.1 - Added Spanish translation by Diego Manuel Vazquez. Version 4.0 - Added "Hide 'PING ERROR' message" setting. Added Ukrainian and Russian languages. Version 3.8 - Added settings how long the alarm should play. Version 3.7 - Improve settings. Version 3.6 - Fixed bug with fill graph type. Version 3.5 - Renamed "Error" ping to "Lost" ping. Added "Show lost ping in percents" setting. Added update notifier. Version 3.4 - Added custom sound and ping error counter for each server. Version 3.3 - Added ping error counter for play sound in settings. Improve interface. Version 3.2 - Fixed typos in settings. Version 3.1 - Added color identify ping error on graph. Version 3.0 - Remove "Refresh ping" button. Added "Pause/continue" button. Added plaing sound if ping error. Added custom error message for each server. Change some functions behavior (see features). Version 2.7 - Improve code. Version 2.6 - Add ping buffer size. Add site's name alias. Version 2.5 - Allow hide "Title" and "Copyright". Added change graph line width and hide gridlines on a graph. Version 2.4 - Fixed bugs. Version 2.3 - Added "Average" and "Error" ping counters. Added "Refresh" button for each ping. Version 2.2 - New refresh rate option added (by request). Version 2.1 - Allow users to hide graph setting.

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