Iranian Product

About Covered.ir

Network observability, in plain terms

Operating within the laws and regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Covered.ir is an Iranian network observability product. Its aim is to give a simple, understandable view of the quality and availability of the network paths, monitored sites and datacentres it watches, along with a number of widely used services.

Covered focuses on technical information and public network observability: rather than a broad verdict on whether "the internet is good today", it shows the few figures that were actually measured, and says where each of them came from.

Who is this for?

Network administrators and infrastructure teams who need to know whether a problem is theirs or the route's.
Businesses whose service depends on one particular domestic or international datacentre.
Developers and technical users assessing route quality before buying or migrating.

How we operate

Covered.ir operates within the laws and regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Covered is not a government service or a regulatory authority, and claims no affiliation with, endorsement by, or representation of any official body.

Privacy

Using the dashboard requires no account, and no third-party analytics or tracking tools run on this site. The only cookie is your chosen language, written when you switch languages; your light/dark theme and wallboard settings stay in your own browser and are never sent to the server.

The visitor counter still turns your network address and browser identifier into a pseudonymous identifier using a random key that is generated on the server and never leaves it; that identifier is deleted 24 hours after your last visit, and only two numbers are derived from it: how many people are online and how many distinct visitors there were in the last 24 hours. Separately, for site administration and security, your network address, browser identifier, and last page viewed are kept for up to 30 days and are visible only to the site administrator. This data is never shared with third parties and is not used for advertising or targeting.

Contact form messages are stored in our database and are visible only to the site administrator; they are never shared with third parties.

Aggregated daily visit counters, whose table contains no IP address or visitor identifier, are retained for monthly and annual reports. These reports sum daily counts; they do not identify distinct people across a whole month or year.

Technical independence

Any commercial, advertising or promotional relationship must remain separate from the technical data, and must not affect status, score, ranking or any monitoring figure. A site's technical score is computed from its own measurements alone.

Reading the dashboard

What is Covered.ir?

Covered.ir is a free public dashboard for the state of Iran's network connectivity: the quality of domestic routes between the country's cities and datacentres, and the quality of international routes to datacentres outside Iran.

Instead of a bare up-or-down light, it measures what actually matters: route latency, the percentage of packets lost, and how steady both stay over time. Those three numbers are the difference between a healthy network and one that is technically connected but unusable.

What are domestic routes?

A domestic route has both ends inside Iran — for example from a datacentre in Tehran to one in Mashhad, or between two operators in the same city. Degradation here typically shows up in domestic services, banks, payment gateways and local cloud platforms.

What are international routes?

An international route has one end outside Iran — for example Tehran to datacentres in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Istanbul or Dubai. These routes pass through a small number of gateways, so a problem on them tends to become visible sooner and affect more services at once.

What is latency?

Latency is the round-trip time for a packet, measured in milliseconds. Domestic routes are usually under 30 ms, and European routes around 90–120 ms. A sudden jump in latency, even with no packet loss, normally means traffic has been rerouted or a gateway is saturated.

What is packet loss?

Packet loss is the percentage of data packets that disappear in transit and never arrive. Below 0.1% is effectively invisible; around 1% becomes noticeable in video calls and online games; above 5% is usually experienced as severe slowness or a service that keeps dropping. Because the useful range spans several orders of magnitude, the packet-loss chart uses a logarithmic axis.

How are outages shown?

Routes can be healthy, degraded, disrupted, down or without reliable data. Unknown does not mean healthy: the current view comes from available measurements and does not assume success when data is missing. State definitions and measurement windows are explained in the methodology section.

Methodology

This section explains, in plain terms, what the numbers on this dashboard claim — and, just as importantly, what they do not.

What is measured

Covered follows the quality and availability of a defined set of network paths, monitored sites and datacentres, and a number of widely used services. The figures shown may include latency, packet loss, availability, uptime and incidents.

Where the data comes from

The measurements are taken by monitoring infrastructure, and Covered presents them. Some of what you see is calculated from that data — uptime, averages, rankings, incident summaries — and some of it is simply what was measured.

Compared against each path's normal behaviour

Different paths naturally perform differently: 95 ms is unremarkable on an international route and a serious fault on a domestic one. Each path is therefore judged mostly against its own normal, historical behaviour rather than against one universal threshold.

What the statuses mean

Healthy: The monitored path or service appears to be operating normally.
Degraded: It is still available, but quality is worse than expected.
Incident: A meaningful technical problem has been observed.
Down: No valid response is being observed according to the configured monitoring criteria.
Unknown: There is not enough reliable or fresh data.

"Unknown" does not mean "healthy".

Missing data is never rendered as healthy data: a window that was not measured stays grey, not green.

Scope

Covered only reflects the locations, paths and services that are actually monitored. This dashboard does not claim to represent the entire internet or the experience of every user in Iran; different users, operators, regions and networks may experience different conditions.

Sources

Where third-party information is shown, it is clearly distinguished from Covered's own monitoring and its source is named. If sample data is active, the page identifies it as sample data.

Limitations

Covered tries to show information as accurately and as current as it can, but no monitoring system can observe every disruption, every path and every user's experience with certainty.

The absence of an alert does not guarantee the absence of a problem.
A problem that is observed does not necessarily affect every user.
Measurements may be delayed, incomplete or temporarily unavailable.
Some problems are too short, too localised, or outside the scope of the available measurements to be detected.
Technical conditions can change quickly.

Limits and responsibility

Covered tries to provide accurate and useful technical information, but measurements can be incomplete, delayed or temporarily unavailable, Covered's own systems can make mistakes too, and not every problem can be detected. Verify information independently before making sensitive decisions; Covered accepts no legal liability for the accuracy of this information, and responsibility for decisions based on what is shown here rests with the user, subject to applicable law. A fuller explanation is on the methodology section.

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