On-demand Diagnostics API and from AGENT Checks

2020/05/11 by Leave a comment

It isn’t always obvious what’s going on when a check fails and additional information about what our probes are seeing can be helpful for troubleshooting. The NodePing diagnostic tools allow you to run several utilities to get information about what our probes are seeing. Now we’ve brought that functionality to our AGENT checks as well as a new API endpoint.

Diagnostics from AGENTs

You can now connect your AGENT checks to our diagnostics servers to run our most useful tools: mtr, ping, traceroute, and dig. Use the instructions in the AGENT software to run the diagnostic client on your AGENT. Your AGENTs will appear in the ‘location’ dropdown of the Diagnostic Tools in NodePing.

Diagnostics API

On-demand diagnostics can now be requested via our REST API. Your integrations can request NodePing diagnostics from any of our probes as well as from your AGENTs with a simple HTTP request. Please see the diagnostics API documentation for details.

If you don’t have a NodePing account, you can sign up for a free, 15-day trial and experience the fast and accurate service NodePing provides.

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Diagnostic Tools

2017/02/02 by Leave a comment

“Why is my check failing?”

It isn’t always obvious what’s causing the failure when a check does ‘down’ and additional information about what our probes are experiencing can be helpful. For example, if your website is timing out, is it the web server, a DNS problem, or maybe packet loss on the network?

Our new diagnostic tools allow you to run several utilities on our probes and give visibility to what our probes are seeing to help you troubleshoot a failing service. These tools can be useful to narrow down where the failure is so you can get things fixed and services restored as quickly as possible.

Tools available:

  • Ping
  • Traceroute
  • MTR
  • Dig
  • Page Load (browser loading with page speed – HAR viewer)
  • Screenshot

More information about the tools and some troubleshooting advice can be found in our documentation.

You can find these tools on the “Diagnostic Tools” tab when you login to your NodePing account.  If you don’t yet have a NodePing account, you can create one and try out these tools with our 15-day, free uptime monitoring trial.

What other tools would be helpful on that page? Let us know in the comments.

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