bp2008/pingtracer

Graphical pinging and traceroute application. Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping identify the source of connectivity problems.

pingtracer's Issues

full screen mode overscan

Bug report:

When clicking on the graph so that it becomes exclusive (ie, titlebar etc disappers), the graph becomes larger than the window was

So if the window was maximized (=1920x1080) before clicking the graph, now the graph is larger than the display (> 1920x1080), Resulting in details like Last Ping, Min/Max etc to not be visible on the screen, and overflowing onto other monitors

Timeline seems broken/unreadable when I switch to "seconds per ping"

Hello, when I switch to 10 seconds per ping timeline on bottom is broken, this should be easier to read.
It looks like that:

Feature Requests: Remember win size+pos on screen; Make font changeable

I would appreciate if PingTracer could remember its windows size and position in screen beyond exit and restart

Moreover the font size should be permanently changeable

Thank you

last 60 minutes -last 24 h last day

hy, it would be nice if you can add the feature to display only the last 60 minutes - or the day, because if i see a outage in the log from yesterday it takes ages to sidescroll to the time where it happens.

Perhaps you can implement a "zoom" feature

kind regards

Feature Request - Log Failures

Any chance you could generate a daily log file when ping fails for a given host?

mutiple destinations

it would be fine if i can ping mutiple destinations in tabs

Is that possible ?

Feature Request [Simple]: Add Digits to Interval Field

It seems that you support <1 sec per ping, yet it would be nice to have a way to see this :-)

For example, I would like to set 0.2 seconds per ping. It seems that this is an valid value yet only shows 0.

Also would be cool as a bonus to set the size of the ping (assuming you are using 32 bytes?).

Settings/state reset

I tweaked settings in both the main UI and in Options. I wanted to reset them all, but there doesn't appear to be a way.

I tried deleting %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\PingTracer, but then Ping Tracer gives:

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at PingTracer.MainForm.controllerLoop(Object arg)

Suggest adding a way to reset the program state to default. It would be nice if Ping Tracer just created a delete-able settings file next to the .exe, since it's otherwise a portable app already. Thanks.

Feature Request: Make it apparent that the "Host" field is a dropdown or has a history

I think ideally this could just be a combobox control? I am not a programmer, but I am a prolific user of tools. I had no idea you could click the Host label. I assume the blue is supposed to indicate a "link"? This is not standard UX. A combobox with autocomplete functionality would be much preferred.

Feature request: Ability to add a related IP to watch

The specific situation that makes me think about this is watching a Comcast-connected endpoint with a static IP. In configurations like that there's both a Comcast cable modem with its own IP address and the assigned static IP address that the end equipment/router gets, but the cable modem IP doesn't show up on a traceroute. By watching both the final IP and the "related" IP of the invisible upstream device you can see whether issues are with the endpoint or with connectivity one hop out from it.

If you're watching from inside a network connected like this you'd typically be watching connections to the router, to the cable modem on 10.1.10.1 (may vary), and to something else external.

Edit: Another useful option could be watching connectivity across a VPN connection and to the external IP of the same destination.

Feature Requests

Very happy to have found this software, it's quite useful! Like MTR but graphical for Windows.

If I may humbly suggest some features that I would find useful:

• Ability to manually input IPs to be pinged rather than using output of a traceroute.
  ---Sometimes it's handy to choose what you want to monitor - i.e. check latency to the switch that's in between you and a router that won't show up as a hop on a traceroute.
  ---Sometimes you may want to check pings to multiple ISPs or targets in different countries
• Ability to choose less than 1 ping/sec. i.e. 1 ping / 5 sec.
  Sometimes I need to monitor network latency over a few days, and having 1 ping/sec means I can't see enough history.

Thank you so much for developing this!

Accidental looping of daily data?

First and foremost, thanks for making a great piece of software and sharing it with the world! It's been very useful in debugging home network reliability issues.

One thing I noticed and thought I should report: It seems like, if you increase the circular buffer to span multiple days, the data starts looping improperly in the graph. That is, todays data shows up as yesterdays data and data for the day before (in addition to today's data). Any idea why that might be so?

Thanks,
Chris

route change detection

can you implement the feature to detect route changes during monitoring?
I tried your program an i have done the following

1. i pinged a webserver -everything is fine
2. i connected to a vpn - now pingtracer doesn't recognize the new route

It would be nice if pingtracer can to that

feature request

would it be possible to ping 30 different hosts at once?
I used smokeping in the past. this app likes nice. I would like to monitor more then 1 site at a time.
thanks

Feature request: display % loss on given sliding window

At this moment, it seems Ping Tracer shows loss percentage on pings visible on the graph. I'd like to be able to configure the time taken into account when showing loss percentage, for example, % loss in last minute, last 10 minutes, last hour, etc. This will be more informative, i think.

GUI multilanguge

@bp2008

Could be possible to modify the source code to add option to have a multilanguage GUI?

I can help translating in italian.

Feature Request: Export/Import data

Can we please add export and import of data. I see a Export - Snapshot of graphs but no idea what that does or where it goes.

Clearing Successful and Failed counters

I'm not sure if this was by design or not, but should stopping and starting clear the counters?

I could see how some might want to keep the stats from the last polling session, but usually when I restart polling I'd prefer the successful and failed counters to clear, as the graphs also clear.

Thanks!

After running the program, enter the IP address in Host and click the "Click to Start" button, the following error occurs.

After running the program, enter the IP address in Host and click the "Click to Start" button, the following error occurs.

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System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingException: Ping 요청 중에 예외가 발생했습니다. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Unknown error (0x2b2a)
위치: System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping.InternalSend(IPAddress address, Byte[] buffer, Int32 timeout, PingOptions options, Boolean async)
위치: System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping.Send(IPAddress address, Int32 timeout, Byte[] buffer, PingOptions options)
--- 내부 예외 스택 추적의 끝 ---
위치: System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping.Send(IPAddress address, Int32 timeout, Byte[] buffer, PingOptions options)
위치: PingTracer.Tracert.d__0.MoveNext()
위치: PingTracer.MainForm.controllerLoop(Object arg)

Feature Request: usage in the shell

It would be incredibly useful to be able to run Pingtracer headless in a shell, specify test parameters, and have the results saved to a file.
The file could be a PNG of the graphs, or a CSV of the pings that could be loaded into a Pingtracer GUI at a later time (or on a different machine) for visual review.

I'd like to be able to run a script on remote machines that does a pingtracer test for a specified period of time, and then review the results on my machine once they are complete. All without interrupting the user.

Thanks for making a great piece of software!

Clarification: I think it's windows. Does it compile in Linux (particularly Ubuntu)

I am a bit reluctant to pull it down and explore as, with my limited software skills, compiling non-Linux things can be a dark if not frankly black hole! I couldn't see the OS dependency/relatedness anywhere. Sorry if I'm looking straight through it somewhere.

Feature request: hard min & max for chart

At the moment the ping chart plots from 0ms latency up to around 500ms. In this case it can be difficult to see pings on the chart that are below 10ms, as barely anything is visible on the chart because most of the graph is just unused blank space.

Then if monitoring a host with high ping (eg 200ms), a large portion of the graph will be green but again a large portion unused blank space. Sometimes this is fine, but other times it is desirable to monitor latency fluctuation more zoomed within a particular range

So it would be nice to be able to specify a min and max range for a ping graph (hard set), and maybe even have an option to automatically determine this range (dynamically) on the fly also as well

Is there a mac os version planed?

First thanks for your great work. I really enjoy the ping tracer - it works perfect to diagnostic problems in home network. Fritz Mesh makes a lot of troubles 😕.

But I also need to use the tracer on the Mac of gf. Is a mac version planed? Or could you provide a mac build. Since the traces is build in C# chances are low, aren't they?

Thanks for your answer!

A Release for Ubuntu Linux LTS versions requested, esp. for Ubuntu-Mate 20.04.latest!

=)

Feature Request: Adjust Latency Resolution?

I am using ping tracer to monitor the ping between myself and my ISP to help diagnose issues.

generally for the single hop from my home to my isp latency is less than 20ms. I am wondering if there is a way to resize the graph to shower greater vertical resolution basically I only need to see a graph that shows between 0ms and 60ms.

good 0-30
bad 30-40
worse 40-60

Log Ping Response and Timing

It would be really nice if we cold log the ping response, time in ms, and system time to the log file so one could go back to the and see in the log when things dropped etc.
One line per ping

Pls add tabs and fix datatime line

Thank you very much for your program.
Excellent replacement WinMTR.
There is a request to add tabs, I sometimes need to check several hosts.
Also there is a small visual bug, below in the screenshot.
Maybe it's just me having such a problem on Windows 10 1803 with DPI 125%

Add the ability to clean the IP / HOST list

Command Line Args / -h <value> doesn't work

Info:

• Windows 11 23H2 (version 22631.3235)
• Ping Tracer 1.16.0.0

Code:

.\PingTracer.exe -h 1.1.1.1 -s

Error:

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
PingTracer.MainForm.ControllerWorker_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)

FYI: Pingtracer is available at chocolatey

https://chocolatey.org/packages/pingtracer

24h time format

Great tool. Please add a option to change to 24h time display, like 14:15 instead of 2:15 (pm). At the moment it seems only 12h (AM/PM) is supported. Thanks

Example shows its 2:38 2:39 2:40 instead 14:38 14:39 14:40 in european time
Date is in correct notation.
Thanks in advance.

log time format

if a windows version with 24h time format is used - the log doesn't show 24 timestamps - even am or pm is missing
the log just shows 09:59:04:547
or similar

Kind regards

Is there a Portable Mode?

Hi there,
is there a "Portable Mode"? -> meaning do not write any file in Appdata folder but instead read config from Program Folder?

Timeline is not continuous

In pingtracer 1.12.1.0 is unfortunately still the bug in that the time list in the graphical overview is not properly scrollable back. For example, if you run a ping overnight and then scroll the graphic completely to see ping failures graphically, then at certain points the wrong time is displayed.
I.e. the timeline is not continuous and logical.
For example the timeline jumps from 9 am to 6 am

Kind regards Sokatra

Feature request: Graph keyboard shortcuts

Thank you guys, this is awesome! If you get bored it would be great to have a way to jump back to current, even better, a way to use the arrow keys to scan back and forth one screen width at a time.

Also if there is any way I can donate coffee, beer, or tacos let me know and I'll gladly send some fun tickets your way for the need of your choice, I use this tool almost every day but don't have any way to contribute from a code perspective.

Originally posted by @carlanwray in #25 (comment)

jitter messaurement

Hy, it would be nice if you can add the feature to measure the jitter

Thanks for this nice program

Port on address crashes

Accidentally left a port on the addess resulting in a crash.

Feature Request: Use Display Name in graphs

This is a really good tool. But to compare to alternatives like MultiPing (my current favorite), I would need to be able to track pings by name. I typically will run 5-10 at the same time. I would prefer to have SERVER1, FIREWALL, etc for monitoring and troubleshooting as opposed to a bunch of IPs.

Bug: When toggling to "graph only" view, the graph area is larger than the window area

This is especially noticeable in Full Screen as it cuts off the labels.

Here is a screenshot of the window (ALT+PRNTSCR) in normal mode. It is 762x672

And without resizing, here is graph mode. It is 780x681

Display name for multiple targets?

You can (apparently) put multiple IPs in separated by commas to ping multiple targets. I attempted to put in display names, also separated by commas, but the graphs still show the IP address.

Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding the display name field?

Single EXE for download

Reason: not everyone has VS installed.
So prebuilt EXE may useful.

You can add releases to repository download list: https://blog.github.com/2013-07-02-release-your-software/