Item: SolarWinds Pingdom
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Pingdom

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to test the uptime of our websites, we have internal testing of the sites, but we wanted a 3rd party out of the infrastructure that would just tell us that it is fully reachable. Pingdom provided this with an easy to use system, it also let us know if we were having high latency.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Clean
Simple
Effective
Reliable

Cons

Smaller increments of additional features

Return on Investment

It helped us keep on top of uptimes.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

I have used Datadog's testing, and it is far more in-depth but more expensive. Pingdom was simple and easy to set up and very reliable, but Datadog had more advanced features but also cost a lot more and wasn't as simple to set up.

Support Rating

I never contacted support.

Key Insights

Do you think SolarWinds Pingdom delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Pingdom's feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Pingdom live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Pingdom go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Pingdom again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for simple website uptime, and making sure that there isn't unexpected outages or slow-downs. I wouldn't use it for more complex scenarios such as API testing, although that is an area that may have been improved since I last looked at it. Very easy to use interface and can be set up in mins.

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Simple and easy to use

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