SolarWinds Pingdom vs. Testomato

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Pingdom
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.
$14.95
per month
Testomato
Score 0.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Testomato is an automated website testing tool.
$9
10 websites
Pricing
SolarWinds PingdomTestomato
Editions & Modules
Synthetic Monitoring
$10
per month
Real User Monitoring
$10
per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Personal
$9
10 websites
Professional
$39
50 websites
Premium
$139
250 websites
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds PingdomTestomato
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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User Ratings
SolarWinds PingdomTestomato
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(65 ratings)
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(4 ratings)
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Usability
10.0
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(54 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds PingdomTestomato
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
I believe the scenarios we used it for were quite well covered, from the executive perspective. The downtime alarms worked very well and were easy to setup, uptime monitoring tools were clear and easy to use, even for non-technical people (C-level) and the SLA management tools allowed us to spend less time, and have less friction, with our clients
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Wikidi
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • The alerts are very responsive offering quite detailed timing information
  • The UI for reports is very clear and set up of reports is very intuitive
  • Customer service was good when there were problems - e.g. lapsing billing causing reporting to go down
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Wikidi
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • The PagerDuty integration could be a lot better. When you use the PagerDuty integration, it doesn't send any information about which check failed! It just sends a message like "Timeout (> 30s)" -- this isn't very helpful when we have hundreds of checks. We've worked around this by using both the PagerDuty and Slack integrations and having them both post to the same Slack channel. But this means that when an engineer is paged from PagerDuty, they have to go to Slack (or Pingdom) to find the details about the page; it's not available on the page itself.
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Wikidi
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
Recently added features have made Pingdom less intuitive for our requirements. While Pingdom has a broad offering and remains a good value, it is becoming more than we need. Our customer base is becoming more and more global and Pingdom still lacks Asia-Pacific monitoring, which we will need within a year.
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Wikidi
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Usability
SolarWinds
Pingdom is easy to use, very intuitive and has a very short learning curve. From the onset, we've been able to jump in and leverage the tool to accomplish our goals for page speed performance and discover the insights we need to make improvements. Its a well-designed tool and makes for a good user experience.
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Wikidi
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Performance
SolarWinds
Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly.
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Wikidi
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
Support responded the same day to my query, as I was setting the product up but couldn't find the setting I needed. This was successfully resolved in a short time frame, so I was pleased with how quickly we were able to get this resolved. I haven't needed to contact support since.
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Wikidi
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
  1. PRTG Network Monitor was a far more complicated tool to use and set up albeit it does both Internal and External monitoring. The setup wasn't intuitive and there are too many configuration options to complete to form an alert
  2. Amazon CloudWatch is specific to AWS resources and cannot be easily use outside of the AWS Ecosystem
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Wikidi
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Honestly, we have 4 other products that overlap this functionality whose organizations provide far superior support. At this point it is an unnecessary expense.
  • In my opinion, their lack of support responsiveness and commitment has impacted our IT agility.
  • Its time to explore other alternatives.
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Wikidi
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