Snapt Squid comes with powerful tools for helping you diagnose any network, cache or even config errors. With many great open source products visibility and troubleshooting can be problems, which is why all Snapt products aim to improve both.

There are many features in Snapt Squid, but today we’ll touch on the Tools section. It enables to you check connectivity through the cache, see an objects status, force a refresh on a cached object, test URL’s, parse the config file and more.

Checking Connectivity

A single request through a cache can often not be a good enough test. The connectivity tester can be configured to send as many requests as you want, and will diagnose any problems (e.g. drops, different page sizes etc). You can see an example of this below, each request is sent through Squid.

Diagnosing a User

Another problem is when a specific user, from a specific IP address is complaining about something that you can’t reproduce – with Snapt you can! As you can see below, you can configure a URL to test, an IP to test from, and the username/password the user is supplying (if you use authentication).

Config Parsing

The config parser doesn’t only pick up any errors – it also offers suggestions for fixing them using an advanced matching algorithm that can detect typing errors! No longer will you have to search for answers to configuration problems!