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PingInfoView for Linux: Use PTTS Ping for Native Multi-Host Monitoring
Looking for PingInfoView on Linux? PTTS Ping offers native multi-host monitoring with status, latency, packet loss, failure duration, and flapping detection.
PingInfoView is a Windows utility developed by NirSoft. For Linux users who want to monitor multiple hosts in one GUI, PTTS Ping provides a native Linux alternative for that core workflow, without requiring Wine. You can watch IP addresses and hostnames together, see which are responding, and track failures over time. This is a workflow comparison, not a claim that PTTS Ping reproduces every PingInfoView feature.
What PingInfoView does
PingInfoView brings ping results for a group of hostnames and IP addresses into one table. Its ping times and success/failure counts help you watch several systems together instead of checking each one separately. NirSoft's official PingInfoView documentation describes these capabilities and lists Windows as the supported platform.
A native Linux alternative: PTTS Ping
PTTS Ping is a Linux desktop application developed by PTTS, built with native C++17 and Qt6. It keeps multiple targets in one monitoring window, so you can review reachability and response times alongside evidence of recent failures. The existing PTTS Ping product page documents these capabilities:
- Multiple targets: monitor IP addresses and hostnames, including targets entered as IPv4 ranges.
- Current results: see each host's UP/DOWN status and latency.
- Failure history: review success and failure counters, packet loss, Last Failure, and Failure Duration.
- Flapping detection: identify hosts that rapidly alternate between reachable and unreachable states.
- Repeatable setup: save and load host lists, with preferences and window layout retained for later use.
How the workflow maps
- Watch a group of hosts: both tools accept hostnames and IP addresses and bring their monitoring results into one view.
- Review responses: PingInfoView reports ping status and timing; PTTS Ping shows UP/DOWN status and latency.
- Track missed replies: both tools expose success and failure counts. PingInfoView also reports a failed-ping percentage; PTTS Ping provides packet-loss tracking.
- Choose the desktop environment: PingInfoView targets Windows. PTTS Ping runs natively on Linux; its current package is tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04.
The PingInfoView comparisons above are based on NirSoft's documentation. Similar information does not imply identical controls, calculations, or behavior.
Why use PTTS Ping on Linux?
If your main requirement is a graphical view of several hosts, PTTS Ping lets you keep that workflow on your Linux desktop without adding a Windows compatibility layer. Failure Duration and Last Failure help you look beyond the current status, while flapping detection draws attention to hosts whose reachability keeps changing.
For example, you might watch a gateway and several servers during maintenance. Compare their current responses, then review the failure counters and duration information to see which targets experienced interruptions. A host responding now may still have had failures earlier in the monitoring session.
Get PTTS Ping
The product page includes the download, installation steps, screenshots, and support links. Start with a small group of hosts you need to watch, compare their status and latency, and save the host list for your next monitoring session.
What to expect before switching
PTTS Ping addresses the common multi-host ping monitoring workflow. It is not a clone, and PTTS makes no claim of complete PingInfoView compatibility or feature parity. If you depend on a particular PingInfoView feature, compare that requirement with PTTS Ping's documented capabilities before switching.
PingInfoView is developed by NirSoft. PTTS is not affiliated with or endorsed by NirSoft.