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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Pingdom

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds 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

    Splunk On-Call

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as VictorOps, Splunk On-Call is an incident response system for developers, devops and operations teams that helps reduce outage time.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds PingdomSplunk On-Call
    Editions & Modules
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Real User Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds PingdomSplunk On-Call
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds PingdomSplunk On-Call
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    SolarWinds
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    49 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds PingdomSplunk On-Call
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.5
    (64 ratings)
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.1
    (54 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds PingdomSplunk On-Call
    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
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    I recommend Splunk on-call is more suited where there are high incident queues; multiple teams need to be involved in handling a P1 severity issue. Multiple levels of escalation are needed environment where automated action is required. I recommend the solution for large-scale & medium-scale business units. For small-scale business units, I see the functional value is less.
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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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    Cisco
    • Easily assign work/tickets between multiple users
    • Supports a wide variety of software integrations
    • Easy to manage scheduling tool
    • As part of the Splunk toolset, provides detailed levels of data analysis at our engineers fingertips
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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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    Cisco
    • The user interface can be furthe improved
    • Licensing needs to be simplified and packaged as a bundle with other Splunk product like Enterprise Security
    • Customer outreach can be further enhanced
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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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    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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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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    Cisco
    Not a lot of love given to VO since the acquisition by Splunk from my POV
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Cisco
    VictorOps support has proven excellent for us. Because it is such a widely used tool, there is a lot of documentation on usage, and a large community of users to lean on. Also, many engineers have had experience working with VictorOps already, and the tool is so easy to setup / manage that much support isn't really necessary.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
    Incentivized
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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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    Cisco
    Splunk On-Call integrates better with our Splunk Cybersecurity and Reporting products due to the same family tree of the same eco system. We were previously using built-in on-call from individual applications and while adequate, they were difficult to manage and support SLA varied greatly across different applications. In addition we also used xMatters which did not integrate well with SAP products nor Citrix products so we were still using more than a single on-call product which was solved by implementing Splunk On-Call
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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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    Cisco
    • It runs our on call rotation so it makes it easy for us.
    • It integrates with Slack so it makes it easy for us to manage through Slack.
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