Probe Settings

Tune Tunna probe target, interval, timeout, concurrency, and battery or data tradeoffs for background node health checks.

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Settings Health Checks, Probe Intervals, Battery

Use this page when checks are too noisy, too stale, too slow, or too expensive for the way you use Tunna.

Health-check tuning

These controls change how often Tunna sends those small test trips and how patient it should be while waiting.

Use these cards as a map of the visible labels in this view. Each card names one field, control, or status item and explains what it is for before you change it or rely on it.

What Tunna tests

Start here when latency never appears or every node looks unavailable.

Enabled

Turns probes on or off. Default is On. Turn it off when you want Tunna to stop running health checks; latency, Active, Top 10, and ZAP may become stale.

Target

The tiny web address each node tries to reach. Default is https://tunna.app/connectivitycheck. Invalid entries fall back to http://gstatic.com/generate_204.

Timeout

How long Tunna waits before calling one probe a failure, from 1 to 30 seconds. Default is 3 seconds. A longer timeout is more patient on slow networks.

How often Tunna tests

More frequent checks make fresher latency numbers and use more battery and data.

Interval

How often active probes repeat, from 3 to 60 seconds. Default is 5 seconds.

Idle Interval

How often probes repeat when Tunna is idle, from 60 to 600 seconds. Default is 120 seconds.

Backoff Interval Limit

How far Tunna may slow down repeated probes when conditions are poor, from 60 to 600 seconds. Default is 300 seconds.

How many Tunna tests at once

Concurrency controls how many nodes can be checked at the same time.

Concurrency

How many nodes Tunna tests at the same time. The slider runs from 1 to 100; default is 30. More is faster for big lists, but it can use more battery and data.

The app groups these controls as Performance, Timing, and Advanced Lifecycle

Performance contains the Concurrency slider. Timing contains Timeout, Interval, and Idle Interval sliders. Advanced Lifecycle contains Backoff Interval Limit. Enabled and Target sit above those sections because they decide whether probes run and where they go.

More checks use more resources

Health checks are tiny, but they are still network trips. Short intervals, high concurrency, and low backoff make Tunna check more often. That can make latency fresher, but it can also use more battery, CPU, and mobile data.

Observability saves when you leave

There is no separate Save button. Tunna keeps the current Enabled, Target, Concurrency, Timeout, Interval, Idle Interval, and Backoff Limit choices when you leave this screen.