Why one path is never the whole story
Modern networks rely on load balancers and redundant routing. Between any two points on the internet there are usually several valid paths, and your packets pick between them dynamically. A standard traceroute only captures one path on one run. OmniPath captures them all.
OmniPath performs multiple route discovery and reports the performance of each individual path, so you can see which routes are the fastest, which have the highest packet loss, and which the network prefers most often.
What you see
Each column of nodes represents the possible hops at that step along the path. The color of each node encodes packet loss: green nodes pass cleanly, red nodes are dropping packets. Hover any node for hop-level performance detail.
Intermittent slowdowns that "can't be reproduced" are often a single bad path in a load-balanced set. OmniPath exposes it on the first run.
Pair it with NetVu
OmniPath tells you about every route to one destination. NetVu visualizes the shared nodes across routes to many destinations, so you can identify single points of failure in your overall topology.