Pingdom

What is Pingdom?

Pingdom is an uptime and page-speed monitoring service, now part of SolarWinds, that pings your site from locations around the world and alerts you when it's down or slow. It's one of the longest-running tools in this space, which means it's well-tested and integrates with just about every alerting and status-page tool you'd already be using. It's built for teams who want reliable, no-surprises monitoring without needing to evaluate a newer, less-proven entrant.

Key features

• Uptime checks from a global network of monitoring locations
• Page-speed monitoring that tracks load time trends over time, not just a single snapshot
• Real user monitoring (RUM) to see actual visitor experience, not just synthetic checks
• Alerting integrations across email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty, and other common tools
• Public status pages you can share with customers

Who it's for

A reasonable choice for teams that want a proven, established monitoring tool and don't mind paying for it, the free tier that used to make it an easy pick for side projects is gone now. If you're running a small side project on a budget, a newer tool with a real free tier will get you similar core functionality for less.

Pricing

Paid subscription plans based on number of checks and monitoring frequency, no free tier currently. Check the tool's site for current plans.