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Released on: March 2026What's New

Ping Monitoring: Know When a Host Stops Responding

Teams can now see when a server, endpoint or network device stops responding, and how its latency and packet loss change over time. Ping Monitoring in Atatus Network Monitoring sends ICMP ping requests to the targets you choose and records reachability, round-trip time and packet loss.

Use it for internal servers, external endpoints and cloud infrastructure, and get alerted when connectivity drops so you can respond before users notice.

Ping Monitoring: Know When a Host Stops Responding

What Ping Monitoring gives you

  • Outage alerts: Get alerted when a target stops responding, and route the alert to the team that owns it.
  • Latency tracking: Chart round-trip times by target to spot network degradation before it affects users.
  • Packet loss monitoring: Track packet loss to find intermittent connectivity problems and unstable network paths.
  • Checks from several hosts: Ping the same target from more than one of your hosts to tell a local network problem from a wider one.
  • Configurable intervals: Set how often each target is checked based on how critical it is.
  • Checks from outside your network: To test reachability from the internet, Uptime Monitoring runs ICMP checks from Atatus locations around the world.