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# Can AlertBot Perform an ICMP Ping?

AlertBot can perform an **ICMP ping** of your website. When setting up a Server Standard monitor, if you leave the Port field blank, the Server Standard monitor will do an ICMP ping. If you fill in the port field when AlertBot pings your website, it will execute an advanced TCP/IP ping. The TCP/IP ping is a more involved test than the ICMP. Rather than just the simple “echo request” that the ICMP ping sends out, TCP/IP ping involves a three-way handshake that evaluates events such as packet loss and response time.