Network Logger Pro Changelog

What's new in Network Logger Pro 7.23

Jan 15, 2024
  • Added Jitter display to URL/IP Monitor test logs. Time labels now display metric intervals down to femtoseconds. Added the ability to load the previous session configuration without session data both manually or in autostart mode. Various UI improvements.

New in Network Logger Pro 7.21 (Dec 22, 2023)

  • Status Menu bug fix
  • New application icon

New in Network Logger Pro 7.2 (Apr 24, 2023)

  • Improved compatibility with enterprise environments.

New in Network Logger Pro 7.1 (Oct 3, 2022)

  • Added window sizing and tiling functions to the Window menu. This can be used to tidy up the desktop or to quickly make video walls for IT centers.

New in Network Logger Pro 7.04 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Status Menu updated to reflect changes in macOS

New in Network Logger Pro 7.02 (Sep 4, 2022)

  • Improved stability. Rewrote a 3rd party ping library to simplify it's threading architecture to enable the elimination of data races which could cause rare crashes.

New in Network Logger Pro 7.01 (May 10, 2022)

  • Users can now create their own custom URL lists for Automatic Internet Connection testing in addition to using the built-in list.
  • The Network History Graph was rewritten in a low level language with multicore processor support to enable smooth scrolling and zooming of 20 million+ samples.
  • A new Network Session file format uses less space per sample - note that old session files are now incompatible.
  • Bug fixes.
  • New Preferences settings added.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.92 (Sep 29, 2021)

  • Added new items to the legend of the History Graph, improved History graph simplification logic.
  • Server/device outages and Internet Outages are now drawn differently in the URL Monitor History Graph to more clearly differentiate between the two types of events.
  • The Color Theme Editor has been improved.
  • The Preferences setting to control the number of historical samples in the URL Monitor has been changed.
  • Clicking on the icon in the task bar now unhides any windows that were hidden.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.9 (Feb 11, 2021)

  • Fixed email address deletion in the Email Alerts window. Fixed two bugs which caused crashes for a small number of users.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.8 (Dec 13, 2020)

  • Support for Apple Silicon & Intel Macs, support for Big Sur, improved interactive History Graph stats, revamped interface for Email Alerts IAP, bug fixes and other improvements.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.7 (Apr 10, 2020)

  • Bug fixes

New in Network Logger Pro 6.6 (Mar 1, 2020)

  • Added "Favorite Configs" for setting up preferred URL Monitor configurations with 1 click. The color theme editor has been redesigned. Many color themes have been revamped and new ones added, providing 18 to choose from.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.5 (Nov 23, 2019)

  • Reduced CPU and disk usage.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.4 (Oct 3, 2019)

  • Fixed an SNMP interface selection issue. Added new feature: It's now easier to add multiple SNMP interfaces for simultaneous display. Miscellaneous bug fixes.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.3 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Minor bug fix, cosmetic improvements.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.2 (May 14, 2019)

  • Default color theme now matches dark tones in macOS Dark Mode. Fixed a bug that could cause a crash in rare conditions when doing SNMP monitoring. Reduced CPU usage caused by polling any unresponsive UPnP devices on the local area network. Reduced CPU usage used when updating the History Graph. Text cursor now visible in dark themes. Miscellaneous bug fixes.

New in Network Logger Pro 6.1 (Dec 4, 2018)

  • Automatic connection testing improvements

New in Network Logger Pro 6.0 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • Introducing video tutorials with step by step demonstrations showing how to accomplish common tasks with Network Logger Pro. The first 5 videos tutorials can be found in the Help menu and 3 more are on the way. Also added a preference setting to switch between 12 hour time and 24 hour time labels on graphs and logs.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.9.3 (Jul 25, 2018)

  • Minor Internet Connection Outage Log improvement. (Now preserves event color coding between sessions and color scheme changes.)

New in Network Logger Pro 5.9.2 (Jun 26, 2018)

  • The "Email Reports" In-App Purchase introduced in the previous version (5.9.1) wasn't submitted to the Mac App Store correctly by us, this update corrects that. The "Email Reports" upgrade provides you with email notification of outage and restoration events for servers, web sites, pingable devices, and your internet connection. You can see this In-App Purchase in the new "Upgrade" menu in the menubar.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.9 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • This version introduces an In-App Purchase to add the Email Reports feature. Email Reports provides you with email notification of outage and restoration events for servers, web sites, pingable devices, and your internet connection.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.8.4 (May 4, 2018)

  • Fix for an auto-save issue.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.8.3 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • Minor update to support a change in how window properties are handled by macOS High Sierra.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.8.2 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Fixed a bug that occurred for users who had their menu bar hidden.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.8 (Mar 23, 2018)

  • 4 new Automatic Connection Testing modes support internet connection logging in unusual firewall situations. Revamped ACT Activity logging. The menu bar status display can now be toggled between compact and large sizes and no longer moves around as the number of digits in the data speed readout changes. Bug fixes.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.7 (Feb 1, 2018)

  • Seamless autosaving and autoloading of both network interface and URL/IP, Ping, HTTP, SNMP & UPnP monitoring sessions creates greater convenience and enables continuous operation across power failures/unexpected reboots for mission critical applications. Fixed a bug that allowed a malformed SNMP response to cause a crash. Fixed a bug in a 3rd party ping library that allowed a malformed ping response to cause a crash.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.6 (Dec 22, 2017)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in the previous update (v5.5) which caused an inaccurate connection outage to be reported after a lengthy period when SNMP monitoring was also in use.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.5 (Dec 17, 2017)

  • Improved support for monitoring routers and devices with SNMP. When using Network Logger to monitor a router or device that supports SNMP v1, you can now monitor multiple network interfaces in the SNMP device simultaneously. SNMP interfaces can now be selected by name with a menu instead of by entering the interface number. SNMP interfaces can also be assigned custom names for easy reference.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.4 (May 8, 2017)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented manually selecting SNMP interfaces other than interface #1 with custom OIDs when monitoring SNMP enabled routers and devices.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.3 (May 6, 2017)

  • Fixed a crash which can occur after hundreds of thousands of pings when the ACT feature is turned on.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.2 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Automated ping monitoring with customized spoken announcements. When monitoring a server URL or a device IP address with a URL Monitor you can customize the spoken and logged status announcements by entering a custom announcement. With this you can set up spoken announcements such as:
  • The company website is down.
  • The smart TV in Johnny's bedroom has been turned on.
  • The IP security camera by the garage went down.
  • The online store payment gateway is not responding.
  • Note: with the "IT" Version of Network Logger, (a separate product) you can have emails sent to lists of recipients when these events occur.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.1 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • Added the ability to detect DNS outages.
  • During a DNS outage, URLs can't be resolved to IP addresses, but IP based traffic is still flowing.
  • The fixes for this are very different than those for connection outages and it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between the two.
  • Network Logger Pro will now identify each type of outage for you in the Connection Log.

New in Network Logger Pro 5.0 (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Added router monitoring (for routers that support UPnP or SNMP v1 or v2).
  • Fixed a bug that caused crash on launch on a small number of systems after a period of time.
  • Various interface improvements.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.9.4 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • Fixed an issue in which OS X App Nap (a feature Apple introduced in OS X 10.9) could kick in if the status menu bar item was turned off while the app was in the background with no windows visible. When these conditions were present, they produced artificially high speed readings due to the Network Logger timer firing schedule being changed by the OS X App Nap feature.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.9.3 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • Added an Activity Display for Automatic Connection Testing.
  • Fixed two two bugs that were introduced in v4.9.2, one interfered with custom HTTP monitoring, another prevented Automatic Connectivity Testing from working if no test interval had ever been set.
  • Also changed the format for allowable URLs for custom HTTP monitoring.
  • Added the ability to Customize the HTTP User Agent to bypass User Agent blocks.
  • Added a checkbox to control the use of unique tokens on URLs, which keep network caches from masking server status.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.9.2 (Jul 10, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug in the Automatic Connectivity Testing feature introduced in v4.9 that caused network caching to appear as a live connection.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.9.1 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug that caused two export options under the File menu to be inactive when no HTTP monitor was open.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.9 (Jun 1, 2016)

  • New: Automatic Connectivity Testing provides zero configuration high frequency and extremely low bandwidth connection testing. The History Graph displays far more detail while using less memory. Animated scrolling of Real Time Displays if you have more interfaces than will fit in the view. Eliminated causes of slowdowns. Many bug fixes.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.7.1 (Oct 26, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the connection outage log from displaying properly.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.7 (Jul 17, 2015)

  • UI improvements, performance enhancements, unlimited realtime interface displays, user prefs, bug fixes.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.5 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • New icon

New in Network Logger Pro 4.4 (Feb 15, 2014)

  • Dramatically reduced CPU usage in a high use condition and overall.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.3 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Fixed bug that caused user defaults to overwrite saved session settings.

New in Network Logger Pro 4.1 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • A new Color Theme Manager allows you to make Network Logger Pro look any way you want, every color can be customized, choose a preset theme or make your own!

New in Network Logger Pro 3.3 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Minor bug fix

New in Network Logger Pro 3.2 (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Minor bug fix

New in Network Logger Pro 3.1 (Feb 23, 2013)

  • minor bug fixes

New in Network Logger Pro 3.0 (Jan 8, 2013)

  • Major feature update including over a dozen customer requests. New features include new testing logic, a new color scheme, new types of graphs, rollover statistics on graph bars, Autosave, CSV file export, faster sampling times, and many others.

New in Network Logger Pro 2.0 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Added the ability to save and resume sessions, export Network Response graphs as PDFs, export Network Outage logs, and export Web Outage logs. Running with settings that cause requests to interrupt timeouts is no longer possible. Added controls for adjusting request timeout durations.

New in Network Logger Pro 1.1 (Aug 24, 2011)

  • Improved request timing, added support for graphing of very slow web site speeds, added a feature that preloads settings from the last session.