Network reliability evidence, on demand. Vigil watches your connection 24/7 and generates the uptime, latency, and outage records you need to push back when your ISP or building staff give you the runaround.
Your internet drops three times a day. Your ISP says "looks fine on our end." Your property manager says "we don't see any issues." You have nothing but frustration — no timestamps, no uptime percentages, no record of when it actually broke. Without evidence, your complaint is just a feeling.
Vigil runs in the background and probes 13 endpoints every 2.5 seconds: public DNS, Teams/Zoom/Outlook over TCP, STUN servers, and your local gateway. Outages are detected live (3+ consecutive failures), aggregated to tiers (raw / 1-min / 5-min / 1-hour), and exported as HTML, CSV, or JSON reports — proof you can attach to a support ticket or send to building management.
Smokeping is a sysadmin tool — config files, RRD databases, perl scripts. Vigil is a desktop app that runs itself.
PingPlotter is paid software and Windows-leaning. Vigil is open source, cross-platform (macOS signed + Windows + Linux), and respects your data — everything stays local.
Occasional mail when Vigil ships something worth knowing about. Nothing else.