Ping Pro 2.22 Brings Searchable Logs to Mac Uptime Monitoring

Neat Software Co released Ping 2.22.0 on 9 February 2026, and the headline is an entirely new advanced logging system with filtering and search. Ping is a lightweight uptime monitor that sits in your Mac's menu bar and checks whether websites, APIs, servers, routers and other network devices are responding. The 2.22 release makes it far easier to look back at what happened and when, and the two updates that followed added TCP port monitoring and more control over logs. For students who run their own projects, servers or home lab kit, these changes turn Ping from a simple traffic light into a more useful diagnostic tool.

What's new in Ping 2.22

The developer's version history lists four changes in 2.22.0.

An all-new advanced logging system

Logging has been rebuilt from the ground up, with the ability to filter and search the response history. Rather than scrolling through a long list of entries, you can narrow the logs down to find the moment a service started failing, then see how it behaved before and after. In-app response logs are one of the features included with Ping Pro.

Custom colour for offline status

A new setting lets you choose the colour used when a site is offline. That is a small change, but it helps if the default colour is hard to distinguish from other menu bar icons, or if you simply want outages to stand out more.

Local network permission status

The support pane now shows whether Ping has been granted macOS's local network permission, which it needs in order to ping devices on your LAN. If a printer, Raspberry Pi or router on your home network shows as unreachable, this makes it quicker to check whether the cause is a permissions setting rather than the device itself.

Fewer limits on the free version

The free edition no longer has a maximum number of custom request headers.

Since then

• Version 2.23.0 (23 April 2026): added TCP pinging, so you can monitor any service on a specific host and port by measuring the time taken to complete a connection handshake. This is useful for services that don't speak HTTP or reply to ICMP, such as databases, SSH servers or game servers.
• Version 2.24.0 (15 July 2026): introduced a setting for how long logs are kept, improved the performance and memory use of the log history view, and added context menu items that copy the equivalent cURL or ping command for a check, ready to paste into Terminal.

Earlier in the window, version 2.19.0 in January 2025 added keyword monitoring, 2.20.0 in July 2025 let webhooks fire when a service comes back up or on every response, and 2.21.0 in September 2025 added support for macOS 26.

Why it matters for students

Ping is most useful to students who build or look after things that live on a network.

• Computer science and web development projects: if you deploy a portfolio site, a group project or an API to a hosting service, Ping can watch it from your menu bar and alert you when it stops responding. The searchable logs in 2.22 make it easier to work out whether an outage lined up with a deployment you made.
• Databases and back-end services: TCP pinging from 2.23 lets you check that a database port or SSH server is accepting connections, not just that a web page loads.
• Home lab and networking modules: students studying networking or cybersecurity often run a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or a spare router. The local network permission indicator helps when LAN devices unexpectedly show as unreachable.
• Debugging: the copy-as-cURL option in 2.24 means you can reproduce a failing check in Terminal and inspect the full response, a handy habit when learning how HTTP works.
• Dissertation and research infrastructure: if your final-year project depends on a server collecting data, keyword monitoring and webhooks can warn you when something breaks, so you don't lose days of results.

Requirements and upgrade details

• macOS: Ping requires macOS 12.4 or later.
• Free and Pro: Ping is available free on the Mac App Store with a limit of three sites. Ping Pro unlocks unlimited sites, in-app response logs, data importing, webhook notifications and removes upgrade prompts.
• How Pro is sold: Neat Software describes Ping Pro as a one-time lifetime purchase with no subscription, available as an in-app upgrade or a direct download. Since version 2.21.0, Pro purchases are restored automatically on new devices.

Get PING PRO with a student discount

Student App Centre members get 40% Off PING PRO, unlocking unlimited monitors, searchable logs and webhooks for less. Visit our PING PRO student discount page for details. If you're not yet a member, start with a 7-day free trial of Student App Centre membership and explore the full catalogue of discounted Mac and iOS apps.