Serial Port Monitor

Monitors all serial port activity.

Serial Port Monitor displays, logs and analyzes all serial data exchange between serial devices and any application.

This tool is ideal to monitor serial communication, all data that was sent to and received from COM RS232/422/485 port, all events that were sent to port by an application and the status of these events. Different types of monitored data representation, easy to navigate and customizable interface supplemented with flexible com port configuration and terminal emulation mode make Serial Port Monitor the best choice for professional developers.

Eltima Software offers two types of licensing policy: Standard and Professional editions of Serial Port Monitor

Common objectives and our solutions:

  • monitor, track, log and analyze the work of any application or serial device

Serial Port Monitor connects to a COM port, opened by any application or hardware and starts monitoring it. From now on, all the data that goes through the monitored com port will show in this monitoring tool. Everything is captured in real-time, so you can track down problems immediately. Moreover, you can redirect all the monitoring data to the defined file or you can copy all recorded data to a clipboard. Serial Port Monitor gives you the ability to intercept and record all serial input/output control codes (IOCTLs), tracking their full details and parameters. After the monitoring period is over, you can save the session and load it next time whenever you need it.

  • read the captured data in different ways

Serial Port Monitor presents data that goes through monitored serial port in four different ways: table view, line view, dump view, terminal view. They all show different amount of information about monitored port and in different way. Choose the one that fits your needs the most, or just use all four of them to gain the full picture of serial communication.

  • modify COM ports settings on the go
  • modify the data you want to send immediately
  • monitor only those events you are interested in

Serial Port Monitor provides you with the ability to send data of various formats: string, binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, mixed. More than that, you can change the type of data being sent immediately without closing the session. The same way during one session enabled, you can modify serial port settings, such as stopbits, flow control, parity control, data bits, highlighting, etc. whatever you need to follow the work of serial port. Serial Port lets you choose monitoring filters, thus saving your time and letting you track down only those events you are interested in.

  • emulate data sending to serial device (in Professional Edition only)
Terminal mode feature of Serial Port Monitor

You can send any data to monitored serial port as it was sent on behalf of monitored application using terminal mode feature of Serial Port Monitor. Thus you can follow the reaction of the serial device being monitored on some special commands.

Serial Port Monitor is:

  • Unexpendable serial port monitoring tool
  • A unique driver-based application that helps developers explore the way the system works
  • A useful utility for software developers, as it can help them track the communication errors between applications and serial port devices
  • Indispensable for sniffing all data that is sent to and received from serial port

Serial Port Monitor overview:

  • Start/stop monitoring of the serial port which is already opened by other application (available in Professional Edition only)
  • Serial Port Monitor is completely compatible with Windows Vista
  • Serial Port Monitor and all of its internal drivers are digitally signed.
  • Advanced send dialog: easily send various types of data, apply aliases for faster typing and automation, send files and loop functions and commands, change serial port parameters on-the-fly (available in Professional Edition only).
  • Monitor any number of serial ports at the same time
  • Data transmission and logging
  • Real-time data capture
  • Control lines status visualized
  • Incoming and outgoing data streams logging
  • Multi-colored commands display in table view
  • Intercept and record all serial input/output control codes (IOCTLs), tracking their full details and parameters
  • Customizable monitoring session logging (several timestamp formats, different scale of notation, customizable logging string length etc.)
  • Convenient and flexible monitoring session's management: saving, importing, exporting, etc.
  • Supports copying all recorded data to clipboard
  • Full duplex mode supported
  • Unique stream filtering tools with presets
  • All baudrates support: up to 256000
  • All COM-port types support: standard on-board ports, extension board ports, SERIAL-via-USB adapters
  • Flexible configuration: stopbits, flow control, parity control, data bits, highlighting, etc.
  • User-friendly interface: the software is designed to provide easy access to the serial ports, no programming skills are required

Serial Port Monitor is aimed to assist:

  • programmers and beta-testers
  • quality-control engineers
  • peripheral software developers
  • OEM development and test engineers
  • system integrators
  • field service and maintenance engineers
  • industrial control and SCADA design engineers

Serial Port Monitor Info:

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Testimonials

With Serial Port Monitor we have completed the period of serial connection debugging in two days, though it could have taken more than a week with other tools we have. It really helped us to find the errors in the connection to COM port that stayed hidden all the previous days. Thank you guys, you really helped us out!

Ben from California

Product info
  • File size:
    3.45MB
  • Latest build:
    4.0.2.281
  • Release date:
    15th March, 2007
  • Build compiled:
    12th February, 2008
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Demo limitations
  • 14-day trial period
System requirements
  • Compatible with:

    - Windows 2000
    - Windows 2003 x32
    - Windows XP x32
    - Windows XP x64
    - Windows Vista x32
    - Windows Vista x64
  • at least one free COM port
Product news

March 21, 2007
Web designer Markus from Germany, multimedia producer Gary from United States, flutist Murillo ...

March 14, 2007
Today we release Serial Port Monitor 4.0 - a major upgrade to our award-winning serial port monitoring utility. Now it is even more flexible ...

January 22, 2007
We always try to be closer to our users, members and partners from all over the world. After several months of hard and precise work we are glad to announce that eltima.com ...

What's new:

Serial Port Monitor and all of its internal drivers are now digitally signed