UDP Monitoring

Monitor availability and performance of UDP applications.

Take Control of Your UDP Monitoring

Dotcom-Monitor users have extensive control over their UDP monitoring and how DNS resolution is performed for monitoring tasks.

How Our UDP Monitoring Solution Works

Our network monitoring agents can test UDP server availability by sending packets to a specified port and receiving a response. If the connection is not accepted, then the service is likely down, and the alert process starts. The following DNS mode options are available:

Frequently Asked Questions

What is UDP?

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is part of the core suite of Internet protocol suite. UDP is primarily used in video and voice streaming applications, such as, VoIP, video conferencing, and online gaming. UDP monitoring is more suitable when TCP would be too complex, too slow, or just unnecessary.

Why is UDP monitoring important?

If a web application provides voice or video transfer over the Internet using UDP, UDP monitoring is effective for ensuring a UDP server is reachable. Our UDP monitoring solution can test UDP server availability by sending packets to a specified port and receiving a response.

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