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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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In my experience SolarWinds Pingdom SAAS is used to monitor externally reachable URL for availability and performance with Real User Monitoring (RUM) transactional monitoring. It has been in use for more than 2 years.
- Very Inexpensive
- Easy to use
- SSO built in
- MFA Built In
- ZERO Product Updates since October 2021
- Last SOC 2 certification April 2022 had several key findings identifying management and operational failures
- Support is HORRENDOUS. No responses for weeks at a time.
- No reported changes or outages in the last year
- External URL availability and performance monitoring
- Security of our data
- RUM monitoring
- Ease of Use
- Support
- 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.
At least during our investigation thus far, all of these companies have a more responsive support organization and are more actively maintaininbg and supporting their products. They are also all significantly more expensive.
Yes. We always purchase the highest levels of support for products we use in Production
Yes
Still unresolved. >12 months
When I first requested to speak to someone about the technology roadmap for SolarWinds, I had a scheduled call with the Global Service owner within 24 hours and she positivelky answered all of my questions satisfactorily in that call, committing to get me responses within "a day or two at most". Now she is ghosting me 2 weeks later.
July 14, 2020
Great product
It is being used by our datacenter and cloud team, to monitor our home pages from different countries. We also have ping monitors against our ISPs gateway and DNS monitor.
- Monitoring DNS and html.
- Alarms.
- Troubleshooting.
- Would like the ability to add custom monitors and satellites.
- It has helped speed up any problem-solving situation thus decreasing any downtimes.
No
We dont really need it, at least for how we use it
No
When we had a couple of routing problems with an ISP on monitors in south-america,