ping_test
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Measure reachability and round-trip time by opening repeated TCP connections to a host, reporting every attempt plus the count sent and received, packet loss percentage and min/avg/max milliseconds. This is a TCP handshake against a port (default 443), not an ICMP echo: a host that drops ICMP still answers here, and a host that answers ICMP with the port closed does not. For a one-shot verdict on a website rather than a latency series, use website_status. Anonymous and rate-limited per IP; private and reserved address space is refused.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| host | string | yes | Domain name or host |
| port | integer | no | Port, default 443 |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"host": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Domain name or host"
},
"port": {
"description": "Port, default 443",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 65535
}
},
"required": [
"host"
]
}