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MonitoringWhat is Pingdom?
Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.
Pingdom is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Uptime & Response time reportsMulti-step transaction monitoringEmail, text & twitter alertsMultiple check locationsRoot cause analysisPublic and email reportsMonitor that your websites and servers are working- Pingdom tests your websites and other infrastructure components as often as every minute to make sure it is all up and running.Be the first to know if something breaks- When an error occurs, you can get alerted via email, text (SMS), Twitter, or a mobile notification to your Android and iOS device.Easily spot trends in your performance- The results of all tests that we perform are saved, and we use that data to create graphs of your site's historical uptime and performance.When it breaks, find out why- If an issue occurs with one of your sites, we use additional tests such as a traceroute to help you find out where the problem is.Identify broken and slow website interactions- Monitor parts of a website like the login, search, check out, or other user interactions that are important to you.Use it wherever you are- You can use our mobile apps for Android and iOS to view report data and the current status of your sites while on the go.
Pingdom Pros & Cons
Pros of Pingdom
- ✓Simple and reliable
- ✓Monitoring your websites
- ✓Easy to use dashboard
- ✓Email, text & twitter alerts
- ✓Free tier
- ✓Performance data
- ✓Detailed Reports
- ✓Email Reports
- ✓Mobile App
- ✓Root Cause Analysis
Cons of Pingdom
- ✗Expensive
- ✗UI is incredibly complicated
- ✗Hard to set up alerts properly
Pingdom Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pingdom?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
