What is the difference between monitoring with a “slow ping” and a “service ping”?

- Service ping is the normal, default, one ping per 5 minutes that expects an echo reply within 1 second. If more than one ping is missed, an alert will be issued.

– Slow ping will wait 5 seconds for a reply, allowing servers that are optimized for non-network tasks more time to process the request.

Using slow ping, rather than Service ping, will typically eliminate alerts from being issued for servers that experience high latency or high server load, thus causing the server to not respond within 1 second.

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