Product Update Log
What we’ve changed and added to Ping Proxies. A straightforward timeline of our improvements.
Live Network Activity
We’ve launched Live Network Activity—a real-time debugging interface. The dashboard provides real-time detailed breakdowns of every request including elapsed time, byte counts, status codes, target hostnames, and user-friendly error messages. Read More ->
Key Features
- Monitor requests in real-time with automatic updates
- View detailed metrics for each proxy connection
- Filter by network, proxy IP, target domain, response codes and more!
- Get clear explanations of status codes and error conditions
Residential Network Improvements in US East
We’ve deployed major infrastructure upgrades to our US East Coast network, achieving a 61% latency reduction and 4X capacity increase to better serve the 40% of residential traffic originating from this critical region.
Key Improvements
- 61% additional latency reduction (75% total improvement from baseline)
- 4X server capacity expansion in the region
- New Points of Presence (PoPs) added to bare-metal infrastructure
- Enhanced failover and redundancy capabilities
- Improved performance stability during peak usage periods
- Increased reliability for high-volume traffic handling
Network Observability Panel
Our new Network Observability Panel tracks your proxy usage by hostname, proxy user and network while offering flexible filtering and visualization options.
Key Features
- Filter activity by hostname, proxy user, and network for any time period
- Apply advanced filtering with operators like != and contains
- View error rates, request counts, and bandwidth usage summaries
- Analyze top 100 hostnames with detailed traffic statistics
- Monitor top 100 proxy users with performance metrics
- Examine traffic distribution across different networks
- Track usage patterns with daily traffic graphs
- Access hourly log summaries organized by proxy user, network, and hostname
Residential Generator Improvements
We’re excited to announce improvements to our residential endpoint generator on our dashboard.
Key Improvements
- Added format generation including socks5h
- Improved searching for city, country and ASN targeting options
- Availability labels have been added for city, country and ASN targeting options to allow customers to see whether nodes are available for particular options.
Dashboard API Panel Launch
API Key Manager
Create and manage API keys directly from your dashboard with just a few clicks:
- Label keys for easy tracking
- View creation dates
- Delete keys when no longer needed
- Create multiple keys for different applications or team members
API Analytics
Monitor your API usage with our new analytics dashboard:
- Track all API calls including endpoints, response codes, and timestamps
- View request volume over time
- Access complete details for every API call
- Easily monitor performance and troubleshoot integration issues
Ping Proxies REST API Launch
We’re excited to announce the general availability of our fully-featured Ping Proxies REST API, enabling programmatic access to our platform and proxy networks.
Major capabilities
- Comprehensive proxy search with filtering by country, ASN, subnet, and more
- Residential proxy generation (sticky or rotating) tied to any proxy user
- Complete proxy user management (create, edit, delete, rotate passwords)
- Real-time analytics for detailed traffic usage across all networks
- Object metadata for attaching key-value pairs to resources
- Programmatic purchasing with complete checkout flow
- Powerful search operators for precise resource queries
API management features
- Simple API key creation and management from your dashboard
- Detailed request logs and usage statistics
- Multi-language support (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Go, Java)
- Developer-friendly documentation with OpenAPI specification
- Try It buttons for testing against sandbox environment
- Structured error definitions and request IDs for easy troubleshooting