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hopscout is a modern, MTR-compatible traceroute and network monitor for Windows, published by the hopscout contributors. Currently at version 0.1.2, with three versions released to date, the software falls into the network diagnostics and monitoring category, serving users who need to trace routes, observe path behavior over time, and troubleshoot connectivity issues. Designed specifically for the Windows platform, hopscout functions as a live traceroute tool and offers two interfaces to suit different working styles: a terminal UI for command-line-oriented workflows and a desktop GUI for users who prefer an interactive visual experience. Its probing capabilities are flexible, supporting ICMP, UDP, and TCP-SYN probes, with the notable advantage that ICMP probing requires no administrative privileges. Both IPv4 and IPv6 networks are supported, making it suitable for contemporary dual-stack environments. Beyond basic route tracing, hopscout provides per-flow multipath discovery, allowing users to observe when traffic traverses multiple routes, and path-change alerting, which notifies users when routes shift over time—features useful for ongoing network monitoring rather than one-off diagnostics. The tool enriches its results with reverse-DNS lookups, ASN information, and geolocation data, and presents this information through a world map view and a topology view, giving a geographic and structural perspective on network paths. For compatibility and reporting, hopscout offers an MTR-compatible command line, easing adoption for users already familiar with the classic MTR utility, and can produce output in report, JSON, and CSV formats, supporting both human-readable summaries and machine-processable data for further analysis. Taken together, these capabilities position hopscout as a comprehensive solution for network administrators, engineers, and power users who require live traceroute functionality, historical path monitoring, and rich contextual detail about the routes their traffic takes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks on Windows systems.
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