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Pingdom is a versatile tool that users rely on to monitor the uptime of their websites and ensure they are up and operational. With …
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What is SolarWinds Pingdom?
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.
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What is SolarWinds Pingdom?
SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It provides web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:
- Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more
- Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings
- Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions
- Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance
SolarWinds Pingdom Features
- Supported: Uptime Monitoring
- Supported: Synthetic Transaction Checks
- Supported: Page Speed Tests
- Supported: Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Supported: No-Code Transaction Recorder
- Supported: Dashboards & Reporting
- Supported: Over 100 Probes Worldwide
- Supported: Developer-Friendly API
- Supported: Alerts & Notifications
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SolarWinds Pingdom Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
SolarWinds Pingdom starts at $14.95.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of SolarWinds Pingdom are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Pingdom is a versatile tool that users rely on to monitor the uptime of their websites and ensure they are up and operational. With Pingdom's notifications via Mobile, Email, and Slack Integration, users can quickly resolve any downtime issues and avoid potential revenue loss. The tool is widely used by multiple departments within organizations for front-line monitoring of core public-facing services, allowing them to be proactive and react as soon as they receive a notification of downtime, preventing further issues. Additionally, Pingdom is used for uptime monitoring and verification of responses from specific endpoints, which assists in diagnosing issues. Its ability to support different monitoring types makes it a preferred choice for many users.
Furthermore, Pingdom serves as an uptime monitor for cloud applications, providing direct notifications and general uptime statistics. Users rely on Pingdom to monitor URL/endpoints and website uptime, ensuring optimal performance. It also helps in managing preventive failures and troubleshooting during scheduled maintenances. Additionally, Pingdom allows for the addition of notification-only users, facilitating collaboration with other teams. As a service provider, Pingdom is a primary tool for monitoring uptime for clients. Users appreciate its simplicity and ease of setup and maintenance. Integration with OpsGenie allows for quick resolution of alerts and efficient management of downtime. Overall, Pingdom is a helpful tool for monitoring and testing websites, analyzing page speed, overall performance, compliance with SLAs, and providing reliable customer service.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Pingdom. The most common recommendations are as follows:
- Users recommend allowing ICMP traffic and configuring the alerting system properly to avoid excessive alerts in Pingdom.
- They also suggest using Google Chrome Developer Tools to gain a better understanding of visitor experience with different network speeds.
- Additionally, users highly recommend considering the free plan offered by Pingdom for basic uptime checking.
Overall, these recommendations highlight the technical reliability of Pingdom as a monitoring platform and provide suggestions on optimizing website performance and monitoring experience.
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December 01, 2022
Cost-effective uptime monitoring
Pingdom offers us another layer of monitoring for our core applications and increases peace of mind for our executive team.
We have several layers of monitoring with alerts driven from AWS for the infrastructure team, but a simple ping to the sites and instant alerts to the executive team gives them peace of mind that our apps are up and responding.
We also publish our pingdom summaries to our clients to prove that we hit contractual uptime obligations.
We have several layers of monitoring with alerts driven from AWS for the infrastructure team, but a simple ping to the sites and instant alerts to the executive team gives them peace of mind that our apps are up and responding.
We also publish our pingdom summaries to our clients to prove that we hit contractual uptime obligations.
- Fast alerting of outages
- Good summaries of monthly uptime achieved
- Easy to use dashboard
- N/A
December 01, 2022
Great for Monitoring
Our organization has used Pingdom as an external monitoring provider for our data centers and networks for about 13 years now. We choose Pingdom because of it's reliability and features. In the 13 years we've had Pingdom, there have been very little false positives. Feature wise, it's nice to have "Root Cause" presented when a failure occurs - this surprisingly sets Pingdom apart from their other competitors which simply tell you if something is up or down. Traceroutes provided are useful to trace down potential issues.
- Root Cause Analysis
- Reliability
- Traceroutes
- Historical Data
- Slow Web Interface
- iOS App Lacking Functionality
November 29, 2022
Pingdom = peace of mind
Pingdom is mainly an uptime monitor for several cloud applications. Both direct notifications and general uptime statistics are important to us.
- Uptime notifications
- Uptime statistics
- Great starter price
- There used to be an app but now you need to use the web login which works fine, but an app is nicer if there is an uptime problem and you're in a rush
We leverage Pingdom to track system uptime across applications. We have been using it for over 8 years and it has been stable, reliable, and consistent for that purpose. We integrate with messaging apps and alerting apps, and have had no major issues. We use the tool to generate monthly reports that are shared organization-wide.
- Track uptime
- Proactive alerting
- Alerting integrations
- No current missing features
November 29, 2022
Nice tool required to run a business smoothly
We use Pingdom to analyse and optimize our website's uptime and response time. Pingdom helps us in managing preventive failures.
- Website up time
- Website response time
- Status Page
- No Mobile App
- Wordpress plugin lacks features
November 29, 2022
Pingdom an easy to implement, mandatory no brainer for your org.
Our public facing connections including B2B and web portals are all monitored with latency monitors and realtime user simulations on our most critical customer facing webapps. Knowing our edge performance and uptime is invaluable for giving us ease of mind and allowing us to focus on improvements while getting instant feedback.
- Ping latency from around the globe or region specific
- Real time user simulations allowing deep analysis of performance and experience
- Integrates wonderfully with the rest of the Solarwinds Platform to provide incredibly detailed transaction logs from end to end.
- Integration of pingdom into Solarwinds platform is prone to disruptive changes where existing api templates are replaced without retaining function.
- Integration of payment is still prone to issues given pingdom prefers credit card payment vs standard invoice approach used by enterprise orgs. 3rd year of repeated issues due to this during renewal.
November 15, 2022
Pingdom is great value and at a great price
We use Pingdom for 24x7 monitoring of our Online Platform. The reporting that Pingdom provides is also shared with Customers as required to show compliance with our published SLAs.
Pingdom provides an easy-to-use interface to configure alerts, set up SSL expiry notifications and configure complex health checks. The Root Cause Analysis Wizard comes in handy to get a handle on potential causes of the service outage
Pingdom provides an easy-to-use interface to configure alerts, set up SSL expiry notifications and configure complex health checks. The Root Cause Analysis Wizard comes in handy to get a handle on potential causes of the service outage
- Ease of configuring a basic alert
- Setup of SSL Expiry Threshold Alerts
- Capability to publish an Uptime Report URL link to share with Customers
- Capability to audit TLS/SSL and Cipher Suite configurations and providing warnings
- Include OWASP TOP TEN Analysis Capability
- Support for Web Application Scanning of Website
January 29, 2022
Excellent Monitoring Solution
We SolarWinds Pingdom to monitor our products from the customer's view via the internet with different aspects and use cases. We are a DevOps team comprising of operations and development specialists supporting the product. As such, we require external monitoring so we can react quicker in case of incidents and problems. With the uptime and transaction checks, we get prompt alerts for any failures that might occur before our customers do. As a result, the software helps us implement remedial action preventing further complications.
- Uninterrupted monitoring
- Faster and smarter alerts
- Downtime reports
- Easier coding for transcript checks
- Bulk modification of checks
- Mobile app
January 20, 2022
SolarWinds Pingdom - Does What It Says!
We use SolarWinds Pingdom to monitor our websites and some other basic services like SMTP. We use it to provide uptime reports on a monthly basis as well. The alerting is used to alert staff when outages occur. The alert goes out using the SolarWinds Pingdom app as well as SMS.
- Alerting
- Monitoring
- Uptime reporting
- Updating alerting settings
January 19, 2022
Pingdom is part of an essential toolset I use to make sure our applications are up and running
We use Pingdom to monitor 30+ different web endpoints in terms of uptime - both internal and 3rd party applications. We have a team of admins that monitor different services and are notified within a minute via the Pingdom app, text, and email when anything goes down. Pingdom also gives us insight into what caused the error. This is an invaluable tool!
- Timeout alerts.
- Errors that result in non-200 HTTP responses.
- Alerting us via different methods (SMS, notifications, email).
- Allowing us to test uptime of internal applications.
- Allow us to setup alerts that are more complex (not just an HTTP post/get request ... but something that is able to test an application that requires authentication).
- Everything else is pretty straightforward and robust.
January 18, 2022
Pingdom - the online tornado siren!
Pingdom is the market leader in web monitoring tools. We use its monitoring for all of our clients. They are reliable and should be proud of [their] dependability. Pingdom somewhat serves as a tornado siren. we need the service the most when our client sites are in trouble. It's nice to never have to worry Pingdom.
- Uptime monitoring
- Transaction tests
- Web speed tests
- Documentation
- Web recorder app
December 23, 2020
Always Know What's Up, Down, Fast, or Slow with Pingdom--24/7/365
SolarWinds Pingdom is our go-to up/down and response time monitoring solution for all of our external sites, apps, and services. It gives us real-time trusted intelligence as to the status, speed, and overall service level of each monitored endpoint.
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time measurements
- Page speed analysis
- Complex multi-step transaction checking
- User management
- Bulk editing
- False positives due to down ISPs
April 27, 2020
Avoid losing thousands in lost revenue and customers because of downtime. Pingdom is a must have.
Score 10 out of 10
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I oversee and manage a lot of clients' performance marketing channels. I work with hundreds of affiliates, run an internal team, and consult on marketing for clients. This usually leads to multiple iterations of funnels and pages for the client and my own internal products. With so many sites being live with millions of dollars of ad spend running through them, it's extremely dire that we know all of the sites are up and operational. A site going down that we don't know about could results in a major loss of revenue, customers, and can cause traffic suppliers to ban us from their program. Having Pindgom monitoring all of these sites and notifying us via Mobile, Email, and Slack Integration has been the very key to resolving any downtime issues that are inevitable to happen. This has resulted in us avoiding any of the above situations or lost revenue.
- Monitoring as many websites as we can throw at it.
- Customer Service has been extremely great with quick responses and resolution.
- The ability to integrate with our chat client or via web hook with allows for maximum visibility amongst team members.
- I think the UX could be improved some to make navigation a little easier.
- More intuitive and granular reporting.
February 01, 2018
Makes sure your sites are up as they should be!
Our service providers use Pingdom to monitor website availability and up times and the impact various 3rd parties that aid our website operation have one this. For example, we were recently able to see that one of our CDN accelerators were causing down times on one of our websites and we could take the reports out of Pingdom to prove this.
- User-friendly Screens
- Flexible reports
- Tracks website up time
- Additional reports
- Historical view/ reports of up to 6 years
- Weekly/Monthly report from Pingdom to users and clients alike showing up times etc