The reasons to monitor
COM port traffic

With the ability to monitor COM port traffic, you can promptly identify or prevent problems that may occur with your serial devices or software. Using the dedicated monitoring app, Serial Port Monitor, it’s easy to read and record data going through any serial port available in your system. That means you can quickly test and analyze whether programs or devices connected to monitored ports operate correctly.

Serial Port Monitor is designed to capture the incoming and outgoing data streams from serial ports of virtually any type, including standard onboard ports, software-based virtual COM ports, extension board ports, Bluetooth COM ports, and more.

The app efficiently intercepts and records serial data from any number of COM ports in real-time and saves all monitored data to a file.

Serial Port Monitor allows viewing captured data in different formats by offering Table, Line, Dump, Modbus, and Terminal data visualizers. With this app, you can efficiently capture serial port data received and sent by your serial ports and identify issues in your system in a timely manner.

Here’s how the app works:

You may need to monitor COM ports to track specific events in your communication system and send captured data to multiple recipients at a time. For that scenario, the optimal solution seems to be the Virtual Serial Port Driver software.

This app gives a way to split a real serial port into multiple virtual interfaces that copy the behavior of the real port. All data received by the split port is replicated and sent simultaneously to all virtual ports and devices or apps connected to them.

To redirect serial port data this way, you should create the respective port bundle in the app.

Here’s how to use Virtual Serial Port Driver’s port-splitting functionality to monitor serial port traffic:

Please note that this feature is only available in the app’s PRO edition.