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Ping (ICMP) monitoring

Ping (ICMP) monitoring allows you to check the reachability and latency of any host - whether it's a server, a router, a network device, or any other IP-addressable target - by sending ICMP echo requests (pings) to it.

How does it work?

Kuvasz monitors your hosts by periodically sending a configurable number of ICMP packets to them. For each check it measures:

  • Latency (average round-trip time of the received replies)
  • Packet loss (percentage of packets that did not receive a reply)

If the measured packet loss meets or exceeds the configured packet loss threshold, the monitor is marked as DOWN and you will be notified through your configured notification channels.

What can be configured?

  • interval for uptime checks
  • hostname or IP address to ping
  • number of ICMP packets per check (1-10)
  • per-ping timeout (1-30 seconds)
  • packet loss threshold that triggers a DOWN event (1-100 %)
  • consecutive failure count threshold

Configuration

Please refer to the Managing ICMP monitors section of the documentation for more information on how to configure ping monitoring.