Posted by mark on April 19th, 2010
Traceroute is a computer network tool used to show the route taken by packets across an IP network. Traceroute is often used for network troubleshooting.
Performing a traceroute (or tracert) from your local computer can be very useful, but many times you need to see traces from different locations to gain insight into possible network issues.
As of today, our free online traceroute tool can be used to trace from 40 locations worldwide: http://www.watchmouse.com/traceroute.php.
You can see the tool in action in the screenshot below with a trace from Nagano, Japan to our central server at www.watchmouse.com.
Traceroute is already used in our Root Cause Analysis functionality. When an error occurs, two traces are instantly executed from the used monitoring stations.
We hope this is useful for you and welcome your feedback!