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Ping (ICMP) monitoring

Is the host reachable at all

PageWarden tests raw host reachability over ICMP, with no port and no HTTP. It separates a host being down from a service being down, and it is loss-aware. Ping runs from the prober regions. On Starter and up.

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PageWarden multi-region checks: one website verified from six regions worldwide on a world map, each region reporting up with its response time, plus a per-region response-time chart.PageWarden multi-region checks: one website verified from six regions worldwide on a world map, each region reporting up with its response time, plus a per-region response-time chart.
One check, verified from six regions

What it checks

Reachability, not a service

Ping sends ICMP echoes and watches for replies, so it answers a different question than an HTTP or port check: is the host itself reachable.

Useful for devices and servers that expose no TCP service, where a website check has nothing to hit.

Plain ICMP echo, no HTTP required

Loss-aware

Up, degraded, or down on packet loss

All replies is up, partial packet loss is degraded, and no replies is down. You see a network getting shaky before it fails outright.

Ping runs from the prober regions, so a regional network problem shows where it is happening.

PageWarden incident detail showing an ongoing outage with the affected regions, an AI root-cause hypothesis, and the recent check results that failed.PageWarden incident detail showing an ongoing outage with the affected regions, an AI root-cause hypothesis, and the recent check results that failed.
An incident with its plain-English diagnosis

Ping alerts

Told when a host goes quiet

Reachability warnings and recoveries go to email on every plan, and to Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks on paid plans.

Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks on paid plans

Quick setup

Set up ping monitoring in two minutes

Enter a host and PageWarden pings it from the prober regions. No agent, nothing to install.

01

Add your host

Enter the hostname or IP you want to reach.

02

Pick your regions

Choose which prober regions ping the host so you can localize a problem.

03

Route your alerts

Send warnings to email on any plan, or to Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks on a paid plan.

PLANS

Ping (ICMP) monitoring is available on the Starter plan and up.

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Questions

Ping Monitoring, answered

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