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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Network ping metrics

The following table lists the metrics that are gathered as output from Network ping checks. Entries indicated as Featured metrics are high-visibility metrics that are displayed in the Operator Workspace Metric tab after an alert is generated. These metrics provide the operator with additional information to help them further explore the specified issue.

Metric typeUnitsMetric type description
ping.packets_transmittedcountNumber of data packets sent to the target host during the ping test.
ping.packets_receivedcountNumber of data packets successfully received by the target host.
ping.packet_losspercentagePercentage of data packets that failed to reach the target host.
ping.timemsAmount of time for the data packets to travel to the destination and back.
ping.minmsShortest amount of time for a series of ping requests on the data packets.
ping.avgmsAverage amount of time for a series of ping requests on the data packets.
ping.maxmsLongest amount of time for a series of ping requests on the data packets.
ping.mdevmsMean deviation (measure of the variability or dispersion) of the round-trip time (RTT) of the packets sent during the ping test.

Parent Topic:Agent Client Collector Monitoring default checks and policies