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SolarWinds Pingdom is a website monitoring platform that provides synthetic and real user monitoring to deliver real-time insights into website uptime and performance. It integrates with SolarWinds AppOptics for infrastructure and application monitoring and SolarWinds Loggly for log management and analytics.

The product, beyond the pitch

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What you can do

  • Monitor website uptime and performance to ensure exceptional customer experience and troubleshoot issues quickly.
  • Use synthetic monitoring to simulate visitor interactions and real user monitoring to gain insights from actual site visitors for performance optimization.

Features

  • Synthetic Monitoring simulates visitor interaction to monitor uptime, page speed, and transactions with alerting.
  • Real User Monitoring provides live maps, user experience monitoring, page load performance, and user behavior metrics in real time.
  • Infrastructure Monitoring offers instant visibility into servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments with integrations for AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.
  • Application Performance Monitoring provides full-stack visibility and troubleshooting to pinpoint root causes down to poor-performing lines of code.
  • Log Management and Analytics offers integrated, hosted, scalable log management to collect, search, and analyze log data for troubleshooting.

Integrations

  • Integrates with apps like Slack, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and supports API access for custom queries.

Platforms & data export

  • Web-based SaaS platform accessible via a single pane of glass interface.

Pingdom pricing

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A practical workflow

  1. Set up page speed, uptime, and transaction checks quickly to start monitoring website performance.
  2. Receive alerts via email or SMS when your website is unavailable or a transaction fails, with options for alert severity and frequency.
  3. Use granular webpage load test tools to monitor performance of every page element and track page speed history to identify bottlenecks.

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What changed

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    bestFor

    Before: ["Digital marketers who need to ensure their website is performing well and meeting KPIs.","Web developers and enterprises requiring comprehensive website and application monitoring."]

    After: []

    features

    Before: ["Uptime monitoring from over 100+ global locations to check site availability.","Page speed monitoring to identify and troubleshoot website slowdowns.","Transaction monitoring to test complex user flows like registrations and checkouts.","Alerting via email, SMS, push notifications, and integrations with apps like Slack and PagerDuty.","Public status pages to share uptime information with customers or colleagues."]

    After: ["Synthetic Monitoring simulates visitor interaction to monitor uptime, page speed, and transactions with alerting.","Real User Monitoring provides live maps, user experience monitoring, page load performance, and user behavior metrics in real time.","Infrastructure Monitoring offers instant visibility into servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments with integrations for AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.","Application Performance Monitoring provides full-stack visibility and troubleshooting to pinpoint root causes down to poor-performing lines of code.","Log Management and Analytics offers integrated, hosted, scalable log management to collect, search, and analyze log data for troubleshooting."]

    integrations

    Before: ["Integrates with apps like Slack, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and supports webhooks for alerting."]

    After: ["Integrates with apps like Slack, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and supports API access for custom queries."]

    plans

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    After: []

    platforms

    Before: []

    After: ["Web-based SaaS platform accessible via a single pane of glass interface."]

    sources

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    summary

    Before: "SolarWinds Pingdom is a website monitoring platform that provides synthetic and real user monitoring to ensure website uptime, performance, and user experience. It offers features like uptime monitoring, page speed analysis, transaction monitoring, alerting, and real user insights to help businesses maintain and optimize their websites."

    After: "SolarWinds Pingdom is a website monitoring platform that provides synthetic and real user monitoring to deliver real-time insights into website uptime and performance. It integrates with SolarWinds AppOptics for infrastructure and application monitoring and SolarWinds Loggly for log management and analytics."

    useCases

    Before: ["Monitor website uptime and availability to ensure continuous accessibility for visitors.","Optimize web performance by analyzing page load times and identifying bottlenecks."]

    After: ["Monitor website uptime and performance to ensure exceptional customer experience and troubleshoot issues quickly.","Use synthetic monitoring to simulate visitor interactions and real user monitoring to gain insights from actual site visitors for performance optimization."]

    walkthrough

    Before: ["Set up page speed, uptime, and transaction checks quickly to start monitoring website performance.","Receive alerts via email, SMS, or webhook immediately when an incident occurs.","Diagnose issues quickly with root cause analysis tools to resolve problems confidently."]

    After: ["Set up page speed, uptime, and transaction checks quickly to start monitoring website performance.","Receive alerts via email or SMS when your website is unavailable or a transaction fails, with options for alert severity and frequency.","Use granular webpage load test tools to monitor performance of every page element and track page speed history to identify bottlenecks."]

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