Hi, Frank.

That's an interesting idea - probably of interest to only a few people, but interesting anyway.

Just exploring the idea a bit more ... how about an alert that adds a comment to the time graph when it sees something like this? Maybe something that says "look at the last 500 samples for an average latency - if the average latency for the last 50 samples is 2% higher than the last 500, then put a comment on the time graph".

By a comment, I mean one of these:

http://www.pingplotter.com/manual/pro/time_graph_annotation.html

- Pete