Pingdom 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Pingdom
Rating: 4.5 (78 reviews)

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Overview

Pingdom

4.5

(78)

Pricing

Starting at $15.00 per month

About Pingdom

SolarWinds ® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution, combining synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) for ultimate visibility and enhanced troubleshooting in a single pane of glass.

• Help ensure web application availability by proactively monitoring your web applications, APIs, and networks. When your website’s down, you and your team will receive an immediate alert, complemented with a root-cause analysis report and outage details for efficient troubleshooting.

• Maintain critical transactions by measuring and alerting on simple-to-complex multi-step user interactions, such as shopping cart checkout, account log in or item search.

• Monitor performance metrics such as page load speed, number of requests, size, and how it ranks according to Yslow’s performance matrix.

• Optimize for speed with detailed waterfall reporting to identify load times of each element of the page and choke points.

• Identify your key customer groups and see if they’re satisfied with your web applications' performance. Correlate web performance with user behavior to see the impact on your revenues.

• Scale with confidence, fulfilling the needs of en...

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Pingdom Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $15.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Synthetic Monitoring

$15.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Email and SMS Alerting
Maintenance Windows
Page Speed Monitoring
Public Status Pages and Reports
Transaction Monitoring
Unlimited Users
Uptime Monitoring

Real User Monitoring

$15.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

13-Month Data Retention
Performance Filtering
Shareable Reports
Unlimited Number of Sites
Unlimited Users

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Pingdom Features

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More features of Pingdom
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Management
Availability Testing
Bandwidth Monitoring
Behavior Tracking
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Visualization
Diagnostic Tools
Email Alerts
Event Logs
For Websites
FTP Monitoring
In-App Events Tracking
Log Analysis
Log Collection
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling
Monitoring
Multiple User Accounts
Purchasing & Receiving
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
Server Monitoring
Single Sign On
Third-Party Integrations
Transaction Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Uptime Reporting
Website Analytics

Pingdom Integrations

OpsGenie

PagerDuty

Slack

Splunk On-Call

Pingdom User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

65%

23%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.4

Emil Maltesen F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Reliable uptime monitoring

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Very reliable and does what it does extremely well

Cons:

Costs. It is not cheap for all the options.

Tony C.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Pingdom Is Like an XRay into Your Site

I recommend Pingdom for new web site owners for monitoring their web site speed. It worked well for me at the free level, but I'm not seeing the value for the higher tiers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like that I can see the "waterfall" view of my site, which helps me to determine what elements are causing my page to load slowly. It does work and it works reliably.

Cons:

I'm not happy that Pingdom's lowest tier runs about $45/month. There are many other vendors doing similar monitoring who charge less. I have an account on a competitor and pay under $50 for an entire year.

Chris V.

Verified reviewer

Design

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

One of the originals, but no longer the best

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Pingdom is one of the original services (at least that I can remember) for ping uptime testing. Its uptime alerting is reliable and stable.

Cons:

Unfortunately the price point just isn't competitive anymore, relative to the features they provide. They only offer 1 minute check intervals (I use a competitor that gets down to 30 second intervals), threshold alerting is only available on higher tier plans, and you can't pay per-check so the moment you cross 10 your plan price nearly triples.

Nigel Masimba R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

An All-In-One Website Performance Suite

I started out using the free Pingdom website speed test tool before signing up to use the full kit of Pingdom tools. I use Pingdom to monitor website performance and uptime.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It works with my favorite content management system. Easy to set up compared to some web performance tracking tools. There is a WordPress plugin to add the Pingdom code snippet which may be useful for less technical users.

Cons:

If you are using other tools similar to Pingdom you may need to choose between them and Pingdom to avoid having too many code snippets installed which could reduce website performance.

Yaniv V.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Great website-monitoring product

This software helps me be alerted in case some of our domains are suffering from constant instability

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The software is very intuitive for first setup and "maintenance". In addition, going over the gathered data is simple and you can see the status "in a glance". The integration with Slack is also great.

Cons:

For a simple URL-pings monitoring - I don't see any disadvantage with this product. Maybe it's less suitable if you need more complex monitoring.

Ernesto Enrique F.

Verified reviewer

Human Resources

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

A must have in web development

With Pingdom I have greatly improved the loading speed of my websites, presenting products that load really fast and improving SEO.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Pingdom is one of those applications that you should keep in mind when developing websites. You can get a full report on the errors found on your page and dozens of useful tips to improve the loading speed. What I like the most is that it not only tells you what mistakes you have, but how you can improve them. You can also schedule the analyzes and obtain a report on how your website works during the days. Even in its free version it allows you to do so, with the limitation of only one site per account.

Cons:

I can only complain about the way they present errors, a little more order would not be wrong.

Ghanshyam G.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Review of Pingdom

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Pingdom has the simplest interface which makes users easier to use and understand. It helps the user to solve the problems occurred by monitoring the websites. It helps for searching the congestion on our site and prioritizes what should be fixed.

Cons:

It is a bit costly for purchasing. Reports are complex to study.

Daniel H.

Verified reviewer

Investment Management

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Monitor Uptime - Helps improve customer experience and sentiment

It has helped us detect and resolve outages before clients even noticed there was a problem!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Track and monitor update for web base applications. Pingdom can alert you moments after your website/software platform becomes unresponsive. The best part is that Pingdom can send you text messages when an outage is detected.

Cons:

When our company made some internal changes we set up a new Pingdom account and for some unknown reason the system triggered false positives saying one of our sites was down, when in fact it was up and working normally. The funny thing is that this problem didn't exist on our old Pingdom account