Hi, Jason.

You don't want to monitor intermediate hops, to be honest. The latency or packet loss displayed in the intermediate hops is unimportant unless it translates to the same at the final destination.

Remember that every packet needs to go through each hop on the way there - and if each router is passing data on to the next router quickly and efficiently, the latency / packet loss of packets that have TTL=0 *at that router* isn't important.

The data for intermediate hops is only interesting in how it affects the final destination. If you're getting packet loss and latency at the final destination, then you can look at the intermediate hops to see which router is introducing that. If, however, the final destination is performing well, you shouldn't worry much about the intermediate hops.