Active Ping - Continuously monitor websites, servers and IP addresses to see if they are online (Updated Jul 2026)
Description:
Active Ping continuously monitors the availability of websites, servers or IP addresses across local, remote, and internet networks. Add a target address, give it a descriptive name, and choose how often it should be checked — anywhere from every minute to every 16 hours — and Active Ping keeps watch from there.
Each monitored site appears in its own live entry showing its current status, and a summary status bar along the bottom tells you at a glance how many of your sites are online, with the time of the last check. If a site fails several checks in a row, Active Ping raises an alert in the window title bar so a genuine outage stands out from a one-off blip. Your monitored list is saved automatically and reloads every time you open the tool, every check is recorded to a per-site history, and the complete history for all sites — including timestamps, results and response times — can be exported to a single CSV file for reporting or trend analysis.
How to use:
1. Enter an address. In the Add Ping Site panel, type the website, server or IP address you want to monitor. You can paste a full URL — Active Ping automatically strips the http:// or https:// prefix for you.
2. Choose how often to check it. Pick an interval from the Every dropdown: 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 45 minutes, or 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 hours. The default is every 5 minutes.
3. Give it a descriptive name. Enter a name so you can recognise the entry at a glance (for example "Main Website" or "Office NAS").
4. Click 'Add'. The site joins your monitored list and checking begins straight away. Duplicates are detected automatically — if the name or address is already in your list, you'll be told rather than ending up with two copies. Your list is saved on exit and reloads automatically next time, so you only ever add a site once.
5. Watch your sites at a glance. Each monitored site has its own entry showing whether it is online and responsive. The status bar at the bottom summarises everything — for example "✔ All 5 site(s) online" or "⚠ 3 / 5 online" — along with the time of the most recent check. If a site fails consecutive checks, the window title changes to an offline alert naming the site, so you'll notice even when you're glancing at the taskbar.
6. Adjust or refresh any time. You can change how often a site is checked directly on its entry — the new interval is saved automatically for next time. Use a site's 'Refresh' option to re-check it immediately, or click '↺ Check All' to force an immediate re-check of every site in your list at once.
7. Remove sites you no longer need. Tick 'Remove from site list on close' on a site's entry to mark it, then either click the '✕ Remove' button to take the marked sites out immediately (you'll be asked to confirm), or simply close the tool and they won't appear next time. You can always re-add a site later if you change your mind.
8. Export your monitoring history. Click '⬇ Export CSV' to save the complete check history for every monitored site into one CSV file — each row records the site name, address, when it was checked, the result, the response time in milliseconds and the check method. The file is stamped with the date and time, ready for reporting, uptime records or spotting slow-downs over time.