Ping is an uptime monitor for your Mac, allowing you to keep track of the status and speed of websites, APIs, servers, and everything else. It provides feedback in your menu bar and local notifications.
Subscribe to the weekly updates in your inboxThe macOS application, Ping, is designed to use your Mac's internet connection as an uptime monitor. This is a simple tool that enjoys high performance and efficiency. This app allows users to keep track of the status and speed of websites, servers, routers, APIs, or any endpoint that they want.
Feedback about the status of these endpoints is provided directly in the user's menu bar and through local notifications. Being a fully native app built with both performance and battery life in mind, you can expect a seamless user experience. The added benefits are secure and private usage with no tracking or analytics involved.
Users of the app can customize the information they want to display and control how often they want to ping their urls. They can also measure and configure response times so they can monitor if a url is performing slowly. An added advantage of using Ping is that it assists users in avoiding the monthly fees that come with an external notification service.
They simply get notified directly for free while they are actively working at their computer. The app is also highly versatile in its usefulness - webmasters, dev ops, gamers, network administrators and anyone else can use it for their purposes.
System requirements: macOS 11.0 or later. Universal Binary - Apple Silicon / Intel. The app presents a heads-up display of the status of all your sites, visible right in your menu bar. Notifications are sent locally when a url is in error or cannot be reached. Advanced users get HTTP and ICMP pinging to tinker with, along with the ability to measure response times to check site performance.
You can determine the frequency of your pings and configure webhooks to interact with another service, sending out an email or SMS when an endpoint is down. There’s added AppleScript support to help with custom workflows as well.
- Display status of sites in the menu bar - Local notifications for url errors and reachability issues - HTTP and ICMP pinging - Response time measurement and configuration - Control of ping frequency - Display information customization - No tracking or analytics for secure and private use - Webhooks configuration - AppleScript support for custom workflows
