Ping-only devices
Anything with an IP address can be monitored by ping, with latency and loss history and alerts.
Updated 10 November 2026
A device you can't read over the RouterOS API or SNMP can still be monitored by ping: a radio without SNMP, a camera, an ISP's router, a generator controller.
Add one
In Admin → Devices, choose Add device and set Kind to Ping only. The API settings disappear: it only needs a name, a site and its address.
What you get
- Up, degraded or down, every 30 seconds (or the interval set on its collector).
- Latency and loss history on its page.
- A place in root cause: when its site is cut off, it shows as unreachable behind the failed link, not as a separate outage.
A device is degraded when it loses more than 20 % of pings over its last 5 cycles, or answers slower than 150 ms. It's down after 3 missed cycles in a row, and up again after 2 good ones.
Better than ping
If the device supports SNMP, add it as SNMP instead: you also get uptime, traffic and, for supported radios and UPSs, much more. Ping still runs for SNMP and RouterOS devices too.