Network Monitoring From Around the World — and From Inside Your Network

Network monitoring is the continuous, synthetic verification that hosts, servers, devices and network paths are reachable, responsive and routing correctly. Dotcom-Monitor does this with ICMP Ping checks for reachability and latency, Traceroute for hop-by-hop path analysis and packet loss, and TCP Port/Telnet checks for service availability. Checks run from 30+ global locations and from inside your own network using Private Agents.

Yes. Deploy a Private Agent — a lightweight Windows or Linux service — inside your network, data center or a branch office. It runs the same Ping, Traceroute and Port checks from the inside and streams results back over a single outbound HTTPS connection. No inbound firewall rules are required, so you can monitor internal-only hosts and validate inside-to-outside connectivity.

Install a Private Agent at each location and run Ping, Traceroute and TCP Port checks between them. You continuously verify the branch-to-HQ or site-to-site path is up, measure its latency and packet loss, and confirm the route actually traverses the intended link. If a branch silently loses connectivity, you’re alerted within a minute — before the site calls the help desk.

Ping (ICMP) confirms a host is reachable and measures round-trip latency and packet loss. Traceroute maps every hop between the monitoring point and the target, exposing where along the path latency or loss is introduced. TCP Port/Telnet monitoring goes a layer higher and confirms a specific service — such as port 443, 25, 3389 or a database port — is actually accepting connections. Together they answer: is the host up, is the path healthy, and is the service listening?

Yes. A Private Agent installed inside your network can Ping, Traceroute and Port-check external targets — SaaS endpoints, cloud services, upstream providers or the public internet — measuring exactly what your users and applications experience from inside the perimeter. This surfaces ISP degradation, upstream routing problems and egress firewall issues that an external-only check would miss.

Dotcom-Monitor operates 30+ monitoring locations across six continents, plus unlimited Private Agents you deploy inside your own environments. You can run the same network check from many public locations at once to see how reachability and routing differ by region, and from private locations to see the internal picture.

Ping and Port checks can run as often as every minute for critical hosts. Traceroutes run on a schedule (configurable from every 1 minute to every 3 hours) and can also be triggered automatically the moment an error is detected, so you always have fresh path diagnostics when something breaks.

Email, SMS, voice call, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty and webhooks, with escalation policies and on-call rotation. Alerts can fire on hard failures (host unreachable, port closed) and on trend thresholds (latency above baseline, packet loss over a percentage), so you catch brownouts as well as outages.

No. Monitoring from the 30+ public locations requires no installation — you simply point a check at a public host. Private Agents are only needed when you want to monitor internal hosts, test between private networks, or measure connectivity from inside your perimeter outward.

Networks are on the critical path for websites, applications, remote work and branch connectivity — and they fail silently. A link can stay “up” while dropping packets, a route can shift to a slower path, or a service port can close while the host still pings. Continuous network monitoring surfaces outages, packet loss and latency drift in seconds, so teams reduce mean time to detection and protect SLAs instead of learning about problems from user complaints.

Run scheduled checks against your hosts and paths from the vantage points that matter: (1) pick a global location for public targets or install a Private Agent inside the network for internal ones, (2) configure ICMP Ping, Traceroute and TCP Port tasks with thresholds for latency and packet loss, and (3) route alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, email or SMS and schedule SLA reports. No appliances to rack — it’s fully SaaS.

Dotcom-Monitor uses ICMP for Ping reachability and latency, ICMP/UDP for Traceroute path analysis, and TCP for port and Telnet service checks. The wider platform also monitors HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, and SNMP-based device metrics — so one account covers reachability, routing, service availability and application-layer health.

Network monitoring software is a tool you install, host and maintain yourself; a network monitoring service is delivered as SaaS, with the vendor running the monitoring infrastructure and global locations for you. Dotcom-Monitor is a cloud service — no servers to stand up or patch — while still giving you an inside view through lightweight Private Agents you deploy in your own network.

Synthetic network monitoring proactively runs simulated checks — Ping, Traceroute, TCP port and higher-level transactions — against your network on a schedule from external locations and from inside agents, rather than only passively analyzing traffic that happens to flow. It detects problems continuously, including during low-traffic periods, and measures exactly what users and dependencies experience from each location.

Yes. Beyond simple up/down checks, Dotcom-Monitor captures round-trip latency, jitter and packet loss on every Ping, hop-by-hop timing on every Traceroute, and connect time on every port check. It baselines normal performance and alerts on statistical drift — so you catch brownouts and slow regressions, the core of network performance monitoring, not just outages.

Yes — a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. It includes every monitoring platform, all global locations, unlimited Private Agents, and 24/7 expert support.