Network Insights

Updated October 23, 2025 18:50

Bernadette Willis

The Fing Desktop and Web App provide at-a-glance and granular information on your network devices at the brand, model, and device type levels. These insights include distribution spread by model and type, product classifications, for example by price or popularity, and warranty information so you can easily know when your devices will be out of warranty.

View Network Insights

When you launch Fing Web App or Fing Desktop, the Network Insights window is included as part of the Dashboard display. To display this window at any time, select Insights from the left navigation bar on Fing Web App or scroll down on the Dashboard to view the Insights About Your Device section.

The Network Insights window shows your devices by brand, for example, Apple, Samsung, and others, and your Devices by Profile. In this Fing Desktop example, six devices are categorized as personal (apple iPhones and laptops), one is categorized as networking (home router), and one is categorized as DigitalMedia (Samsung TV).

The Fing Insights feature presents a layered view and you can easily navigate between overview information providing a collective view of all device types and individual device information using the Explore option on each window as shown in this Fing Web App example.

More Network Insights

You can also find expanded insights on other aspects of your network. To expand and discover more nsights, select See All Insights.

Device Distribution

The Device Distribution graph shows Devices By Profile, Device Recognition (Full or Partial), and Smart Home Integrations. Full recognition means that the Device Brand, and Model are identified and displayed. In this example, the iPhone 13 identified by Brand: Apple, Family: iPhone, and Model: iPhone 13, is one of the devices shown as a fully recognized device. Partial recognition means that some of these characteristics are not recognized. In this example, the Samsung and home router are partially recognized. Brand, family, and model are not available for the home router, and brand is recognized for the Samsung but family and model are not available. The information provided depends on the information available to Fing.

Smart Home Integration

The Smart Home Integration lists the type of smart home integrations for each device. You may have more than one smart home integration for each device as in this example, which shows 5 integrations and 4 devices. In the Integrations column, you can see the smart home integrations for each device.

Online Status Over Time (Fing Desktop)

The chart below the Device Distribution tracks online status over time up to 28 days. You can specify a timeline graph showing status for a day, a week, or a 28 day period. You can also filter on the type of device. In this example, online status for a week is displayed, and the display is filtered to show only personal devices. Three devices are online from 6 am to 12 noon on the first day, Friday.

Lifecycle and Warranty

The Lifecycle and Warranty window shows a graphical display of the warranty status of your devices. Select Explore from the Lifecycle and Warranty window to display device brand, model and name. You can also mouse over the status column (online) to show the option to check the warranty information, and whether the product is within its warranty period or not as shown in the example below. Information is categorized in these areas:

Check Warranty: If the link for warranty information was available to Fing, this option is displayed and the links takes you to the manufacturer's warranty page.
Under 5 years: Products were released less than 5 years ago.
Under 10 years: Products were released less than 10 years ago.
Unsupported: Product is out of warranty.

Distribution Insights and Product Classification Displays

The Distribution Insights window shows a breakdown of the distribution of devices by operating system, brand and product family so you can easily understand the makeup of your network. The Product Classification display shows a breakdown of your products by product price, popularity, and market (consumer or enterprise).