Skip to content

ISP Tracker features, agent or service questions

175 Topics 1.6k Posts

Ask how a feature works, how agents work, anything related to non specific agent platforms

Support forum notice: support.outagesio.com is now support.isptracker.com. Create a forum account and start a topic for ISP Tracker support.
Intelligent answers about Internet problems—without digging through raw data.
ISP Tracker explains what happened, where the problem appears, and whether it keeps happening. Learn more
  • Error Activating Hardware Agent

    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    2k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    No problem. It's all fixed now as you said. I've created an issue for the devs to look into next week. Thanks for letting us know and for using OutagesIO.
  • No Data: Outages, Avg Time, Network Stats, Speed Test Results

    12
    0 Votes
    12 Posts
    4k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    I'm sure I don't have to mention it but it might help someone else that finds this post. If/when there seems to be something happening with the Internet, please make sure the agent continues to run non stop. A lot of people see the agent inactive or disaconnected in their dashboard and restart the agent which causes it to lose any actual outage data it might have been tracking. The agent will always track outages but sometimes it takes some human intervention to decypher the results later. For example, you might still have Internet access but the agent is unable to reach the OutagesIO network. Things of that nature become clearer as data builds up and you start seeing problem points etc. We'll be happy to help out once you start seeing this kind of information coming in. Having a neightbor or two that are using the same provider monitoring also is an excellent way to confirm provider issues.
  • Slow speed tests

    17
    0 Votes
    17 Posts
    5k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi, I'm sorry about this but the new speed test is still in testing. We had started rolling it out but found some problems that we need to solve. Ping us again about this in a month or so if you've not seen it rolled out or have found any answers.
  • Target specific servers

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    1k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Understood. No, this cannot be accomplished at this time.
  • Upload speed test?

    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    3k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi again, Maybe I am not seeing it but did you share your agent ID?
  • Download stats in Excel CSV format?

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    1k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi Dean, Not sure if you know but we've added excel downloads in some of the historical sections for Extended reports.
  • Beyong your provider outages

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    927 Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    You announced a few weeks ago that you were stopping logging beyond your provider outages. I’m still getting these. Have you not done this yet or do I need to upgrade my agents first? Hi, no we've not removed those yet. It seems some want to know about beyond problems even if it is only informational. The notice was eventually taken down. Many of the outages I am seeing by getting emails are not being logged in the dashboard. Is this because they are very short duration? The ones that are logged are usually in Denver 10 hops away, which is not of any concern. Do you mean specifically outages or Inactive and maybe Disconnected emails? The emails will specify if the event is only known as Inactive or Disconnected unless there is specifically an IP outage. If there is no IP outage, the emails won't mention outages. You can control those emails from the Notifications menu if you don't want to know about Inactive.
  • 0 Votes
    7 Posts
    3k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    @kf6pve: Thanks for checking and appreciate your help. :) Hi, I've not seen an update from you so I decided to check and I see that your connection is now showing a lot of outages and all of the stats you were asking about. Please keep in mind that nothing will show up until there are verifiable problems to fill in those graphs. From what I can see now, most of the problems are with the provider, around 7am and 5:30pm are your peak trouble times. Your speed tests show that speeds are pretty average in terms of a baseline. I hope this is now helping you to better understand what is happening with your connection. Notice that there is a date range as well. If you've not had any problems in the past day or week for example, some graphs won't show anything until you extended the range. Keep in mind that you can click on the 'About this page' where ever you see that for help with that particular page any time you see it. Let us know if you have any questions.
  • Software Agents Status Disconnected - How to reconnect?

    9
    0 Votes
    9 Posts
    3k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi, It is always possible there is a bug. Microsoft is constantly updating things. We have two options if this happens again. 1: We can send you a special logging version where once you see the problem, you could send us the log. (preferred) 2: We can have a Windows developer remotely access your PC to do a little testing and hopefully find the problem. Please let us know if this is still happening and we'll send you a logging version where you can send us the log when this happens again. Thank you for taking the time to report anything you feel could be wrong so we can have an opportunity to fix it.
  • Premium activation time

    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    1k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi, This links shows many of the various features that the different levels have. There are only three levels, free Community, Extended reports and then Enterprise level for companies managing dozens, hundreds and even thousands of locations/connections. https://www.outagesio.com/benefits-of-internet-monitoring-tools-to-troubleshoot-outage/ In terms of pricing, we offer the hardware agent, a one time purchase which can be used with the free Community or paid Extended reports. The only pricing differences are that we offer bundles. https://www.outagesio.com/internet-monitoring-software-and-hardware-with-outage-alerts/ Hope this helps.
  • Missing help text for outages

    7
    0 Votes
    7 Posts
    2k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    We've fixed the help text problem and I believe the download image problem was also fixed. The problem with the browser is not something on our end. I shared a link showing what the problem is. We always consider that problems are possible and hope that members report them as you have so we thank you for that. We've fixed it, can you check.
  • Agent keeps disconnecting

    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    670 Views
    No one has replied
  • Docker Agent Support?

    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    686 Views
    No one has replied
  • Constant site crashes

    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    1k Views
    K
    Just talked with one of the site devs and they tell me this is the issue. Fix Chrome and Microsoft Edge’s ‘Status_Access_Violation’ Error I didn't look closely enough and thought it was something we've addressed before.
  • "complete installation message"

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    2k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi, When it cannot install, it will usually always pop up an error log or error. Do you have any screen shots or anything that could help us? As for win7, it runs on Win7 64bit only, not 32bit and the OS must have at minimum service pack one installed. I believe the installer will handle the rest if needed.
  • Finishing with outagesio

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    2k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi, Sorry for the delay. I had not ticked on being notified about additional comments on this post. It's called Echo Networks service.
  • Hardware Agent Setup

    28
    0 Votes
    28 Posts
    23k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    First, enabling DDNS in your agent dashboard is a way to reach something on your network without having to remember the IP. For example, if you had a security camera at home and didn't want to look up the IP all the time, you would set the DDNS on your agent to a name. In this case, mylan.dnspoints.com. The dnspoints.com is simply a left over domain from something else we worked on which we use to give members an easy to remember word. Next time you wanted to reach your camera, you would enter mylan.dnspoints.com into your app/browser and would not have to remember any IP even if it changed. Second, the DNS server built into your router can be used if your ISP's dns server goes down. You could configure the agent's LAN IP as another DNS server in your router or on your PC. Most people have their routers handing out DHCP IPs so that is probably where it should be put. You won't reach anything by trying to visit the agent as it does not respond to anything in terms of trying to see something with a browser. There is no service other than the DNS service.
  • Extracting the Dashboard data into a report

    10
    0 Votes
    10 Posts
    4k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    @DeanONH: We need to be able to download all collected data in the form usable by MS Excel. I suggest comma delimited format. I believe that someone is going to respond to an email that you sent about this. This is important to us as well and recently became a higher priority.
  • How is "beyond" determined?

    11
    0 Votes
    11 Posts
    4k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    I'll check. Maybe the fix was not sent to production yesterday if they were working on other things.
  • Hardware Agent Fails to Remain Running

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    1k Views
    ISPtracker_SupportI
    Hi James, I have a new hardware agent which I received last week and it's failed to remain running for more than about 10 minutes. I plugged it in and created an agent on the website, successfully communicating with it and setting it up. Hardware agents are pre-created and waiting for you to activate it once you receive it. When you install or 'create' software agents, you are prompted to pick the operating system version. The installer eventually prompts you to enter your login credentials so that it can find out which account to assign your new agent to. You mention showing 'continue installation' would be a software agent and unrelated to your hardware agent. When you first create a software agent, it shows in 'Created' status with 'complete installation'. Those are removed 24hrs later so as not to confuse members. Now let's look at the hardware agent. When your hardware agent was prepared and ready to ship, an email containing the word 'Activation' would have been sent to you. That email contains all of the information you need to know how to connect your agent and activate it into your account. I think you are missing this email as it explains how to get it up and running and activated into your account. Without this information, you might end up going down the path you have. Reset does not do anything on the agents, we disable them because people have trashed their agents by pressing buttons without knowing what they mean. Since you see a single solid LED on, it means the agent is running as it should be, it's just waiting to be activated into your account. Let's see if we can take care of that first then we can try to solve what's going on with any software agents you might have created. First, can you post the agent ID of the hardware please. There is a white sticker on the side of the hardware agent, please share that number.