Pingdom
Uptime, website, and performance monitoring
About Pingdom
Pingdom by SolarWinds is a SaaS website monitoring platform that tracks uptime, page speed, transactions, and real-user experience from a global network of test locations. It alerts teams the moment a site goes down or slows so they can fix issues before customers are affected.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Long-established, reliable provider trusted since 2007
- Large global network of 100+ monitoring locations
- Combines synthetic checks and real-user monitoring in one platform
- Flexible quantity-based pricing that scales from small sites to enterprise
- Multiple alert channels (SMS, email, in-app) plus integrations and API
Cons
- No permanent free plan, only a 30-day trial
- Synthetic and Real User Monitoring are priced as separate products that add up
- SMS alert quotas are capped per plan tier
- More expensive than several modern uptime-monitoring alternatives at scale
Key Features
Uptime Monitoring
Checks website and server availability as often as every minute from 100+ global polling locations and confirms outages before alerting.
Page Speed Monitoring
Analyzes web page load performance to pinpoint slow, large, or problematic elements and shows how to make pages faster.
Transaction Monitoring
Runs synthetic checks of multi-step user flows such as login, search, registration, and checkout to verify critical paths work.
Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Captures how actual visitors experience your site in real time, broken down by browser, device, and geographic location.
Alerting and Notifications
Delivers downtime and error alerts via SMS, email, and in-app notifications, plus webhooks and integrations.
Root Cause Analysis
Provides detailed performance breakdowns and reports to help teams troubleshoot the source of slowdowns and outages quickly.
Public Status & Reports
Shareable uptime and performance reports and dashboards for stakeholders and customers.
Integrations
Connects with tools like Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and webhooks, and exposes a public API for automation.
Pricing
- From $198/yr (10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check, 50 SMS alerts)
- Uptime monitoring from 100+ locations
- Page speed monitoring
- Transaction monitoring
- Scales up to 30,000 uptime checks
- From $198/yr (100,000 pageviews)
- Unlimited sites and users
- Real user performance insights
- Shareable reports
- Scales up to 1 billion pageviews
- From 500K to over 5M+ pageviews per month
- Scaled monitoring for large digital footprints
- Request a custom quote
- Dedicated support
Best For
Website Uptime Assurance
Continuously monitor business-critical websites and get alerted within seconds of an outage to minimize downtime.
Performance Optimization
Track page load speed over time and identify slow elements to improve user experience and conversions.
Critical Flow Monitoring
Verify that key transactions like checkout, login, and signup keep working end to end with synthetic transaction checks.
Real-User Experience Insights
Understand how real visitors experience your site across devices, browsers, and regions to prioritize fixes.
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