For Support Teams

When a customer says “it’s broken,” see exactly where it breaks.

Trace a request through all seven layers from 40+ probes worldwide. Stop guessing on tickets — reproduce the issue, prove the cause, and reply with evidence.

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OSI layers traced
40+
Global probe locations
<60s
To reproduce a complaint
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Export formats for tickets
When tickets get strange

The tickets that ruin your afternoon — solved before your coffee gets cold.

“Works for me” isn’t an answer your customer wants to hear. PingForce turns the vague, the intermittent, and the it-only-happens-sometimes tickets into a screenshot you can paste straight into the reply.

The ticket
Marcus K.
Customer · opened 4 min ago
“Your checkout page won’t load for me. Just spins forever. I’ve tried twice. Everything else on the internet works fine!”
no error code can’t reproduce works for us
The diagnosis · 47 seconds later
Tested checkout from São Paulo — reproduced the hang
38 other probes worldwide: all 200 OK
Traceroute stalls at hop 9 — peering congestion, not your app
Root cause: regional routing, upstream of you — proven, not guessed
Illustrative example. Real diagnoses use live probe + traceroute data from the Ping Feature.
“It’s slow… sometimes. I can’t pin it down.”
Ghost problems vanish the moment you go looking. Continuous monitoring watches around the clock and timestamps every blip — so the intermittent finally becomes evidence you can act on.
Monitor Feature
“It works for me.”
Stop trusting your own browser. Reproduce exactly what the customer sees by testing from their region on demand — and find out in seconds whether the problem is real.
Ping Feature
“Is it your site or my wifi?”
Traceroute and hop-by-hop path data show exactly where a request breaks down — your server, the route in between, or the customer’s own connection. End the blame game with proof.
Ping Feature
“Only my customers in one region are affected.”
Fan out across 40+ probes on 7 cloud providers and instantly see which regions are healthy and which are hurting. Isolate the affected geography in a single test.
Ping Feature
“Did my last deploy break something?”
Ship a release and watch for fallout. Continuous checks flag a regression the moment it appears, with a timestamp you can line up against your deploy — and maintenance windows keep planned downtime from crying wolf.
Monitor Feature
Ping Feature

Test from where your customers actually are — all 40+ of them.

Your customers aren’t all sitting in your office. When one of them has a problem, run a single test that fans out across 40+ probes on 7 cloud providers — North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Africa — and see exactly which corners of the world are healthy and which are hurting.

Live probe sweep target: app.customer.com
Healthy Degraded Failing
Results 11 of 40 shown
Virginia, US AWS 22 ms
Frankfurt, DE Hetzner 31 ms
London, UK Vultr 29 ms
Tokyo, JP GCP 44 ms
Singapore, SG Linode 188 ms
São Paulo, BR DigitalOcean timeout
9 healthy, 1 degraded, 1 failing — problem isolated to South America.
7 cloud providers, not 1
Probes span AWS, GCP, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, and Azure — path diversity, not just map dots.
Ping & traceroute
Latency, packet loss, and hop-by-hop path from every probe. See where slow becomes broken.
WHOIS, IRR & RPKI built in
Registration, routing-registry, and route-origin checks on every target — no extra tabs.
Tune the test
Set packet count, interval, and size. Run up to 50 simultaneous probe tests, tier-dependent.
Bring your own probe

Build a fleet that watches from inside the places the public probes can’t reach.

The 40+ global probes cover the open internet. But your trickiest tickets live behind a firewall, at a branch office, or on a customer’s private network. Deploy your own probes anywhere — any cloud, any datacenter, on-prem, a closet in Cleveland — and test from the exact spot where the problem actually happens.

Your probe fleet · 1 account, many vantage points
Public
Global Network
40+ shared probes
online
Private
HQ Datacenter
on-prem · Dallas
online
Private
Branch Office
behind firewall · Berlin
online
Community
Contributed Probe
earns donated slots
online

Private probes

Visible only to you. Deploy inside internal networks, behind firewalls, or at specific egress points to test the infrastructure customers never see — but absolutely feel. Run a check on demand, or fire one automatically when a monitor opens an incident.
Your eyes only

Community probes

Contribute a probe back to the shared network and earn extra donated slots in return. Help the community see more of the world — and expand your own reach at the same time.
Earn donated slots

The public 40+

Always there, always on. Your private fleet doesn’t replace the global network — it adds to it. Test from inside and outside in the same run for the complete picture.
Shared network
Run a community probe and PingForce rewards you with donated slots — more simultaneous tests, at no extra cost. Higher tiers come stacked with slots out of the box, so your fleet scales with you.
Close the loop

Don’t just fix it — show your work.

A diagnosis nobody can see is just a hunch. Turn every test into proof you can paste into a reply, and give customers a status page they can check themselves — so the next outage generates fewer tickets, not more.

Share a test result
Ping Feature
Run a test, get a shareable link. Drop it straight into the ticket so the customer sees the same evidence you do — no screenshots, no “trust me.”
Your reply to Marcus K.
We tested from your region and confirmed the slowdown is upstream routing, not our app. Full results here:
Shareable link JSON CSV
Publish a status page
Monitor Feature
Give customers a live status page they can check before they email you. Public or password-protected — real-time state plus incident history.
status.yoursite.com All systems operational
Website Operational
Checkout API Operational
Customer portal Operational
90-day uptime history
Public Password-protected
Reply with evidence
Swap “we’re looking into it” for a link that shows exactly what’s happening and where.
Cut ticket volume
A self-serve status page answers “is it down?” before it ever becomes a ticket.
Export anywhere
Link, JSON, or CSV — feed results into a postmortem, a spreadsheet, or your own tooling.
Field reports

From the people answering the tickets.

We heavily rely on our VPN for remote working since 90% of our company works remotely. We love PingForce because it instantly lets us know if there's an issue. Keeping our staff connected is vital to our company's success. Thank you for an affordable, reliable solution that just works.
Tony Moretti
IT Manager · Apex Virtual Solutions
We used to find out checkout was down from angry customer emails. Now we know within the minute and fix it before support even sees a ticket.
Maya Okafor
Head of DevOps · Northwind Commerce
The status page paid for itself the first time something broke. Customers saw we were on it, and our support inbox stayed quiet.
Marcus Hale
IT Manager · Cedar & Co.
Intel briefing

Questions support teams ask us.

A customer reports an issue I can't reproduce. What do I do?

Run a Ping test targeting your site and choose probes in the customer's region. You'll see exactly what they see — latency, packet loss, and the full traceroute path — even when it works fine from your office. If 39 probes are healthy and one region is failing, you've found your answer in under a minute.

How do I prove a problem is the customer's ISP and not our service?

Traceroute shows the request hop by hop. When the path stalls or drops before it reaches your server, that's upstream — the customer's network or a carrier in between. Share the result link so the customer can see the breakdown point themselves.

Can I catch problems that only happen intermittently?

Yes. The Monitor Feature runs continuous checks and timestamps every failure, so an intermittent issue leaves a paper trail even when it's not happening at the moment you look. We require 3 consecutive failed checks before opening an incident, so you get real signal, not noise.

Can I test from inside our own network?

Yes — deploy a private probe on your own infrastructure (cloud, datacenter, on-prem, or a branch office). It's visible only to you and lets you test from inside firewalls or specific egress points the public probes can't reach.

Can customers see status without opening a ticket?

Publish a status page — public or password-protected — showing real-time service state and incident history. Captain tier includes 2 status pages, with more on higher tiers. Most teams see "is it down?" tickets drop once customers can self-serve.

How does my team get alerted?

Alerts fire when an incident opens and again when it closes, across email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks (for PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and the like). Share monitors with teammates at read-only or read/write permission — child accounts are included on Captain and up.

Can I export results for a postmortem?

Every Ping test exports as a shareable link, JSON, or CSV. Drop the link in a ticket, feed the JSON into your own tooling, or pull the CSV into a postmortem doc. Monitor incident history is retained for one year for SLA evidence.

Different question? Email support@pingforce.net — we usually reply within a few hours.
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