🔍 Online Traceroute
Trace the full network path to any IP address or hostname, hop by hop, with live streaming output.
About Online Traceroute
Traceroute (also called tracert on Windows) maps every router hop between our server and your target host by sending packets with incrementing TTL values. Each line shows a hop number, the router IP or hostname, and round-trip times — letting you pinpoint exactly where latency spikes or where packets stop. Full IPv4 and IPv6 support: select IPv6 mode to trace over IPv6 (equivalent to traceroute6 / tracert -6). Results stream live as each hop responds.
Asterisks (* * *) at a hop mean the router is not responding to traceroute probes — usually because it silently drops them at a firewall. If later hops do respond, the route is still working. High latency at a single hop that doesn't carry through to subsequent hops is usually just the router de-prioritizing probe responses, not actual congestion — watch for latency that persists from a hop onwards.
Traceroute is most useful for diagnosing where a connection degrades. If hops within the datacenter are fast but latency spikes at a specific router, that link is the bottleneck. Combine it with a Ping Test to measure steady-state latency, and use Reverse DNS to look up the hostname of any hop IP. Because the trace runs from our server, the path reflects server-to-target routing, not your local network path.