--- description: Review of Pingdom Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Pingdom | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Optimisation Tools](/directory/4680/website-optimization/software) > [Pingdom](/software/411661/pingdom) # Pingdom Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/411661/pingdom Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/411661/pingdom?page=2) > 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 enterprise-level web applications. Easily manage millions of URLs and large amounts of data. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 78 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 78 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: SolarWinds - **Location**: Tulsa, US - **Founded**: 1999 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$15.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: 30-day free trial available. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Notifications - Application Management - Availability Testing - Bandwidth Monitoring - Behaviour Tracking - Collaboration Tools - Customer Experience Management - Customer Segmentation - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Visualisation - Diagnostic Tools - Email Alerts - Event Logs - FTP Monitoring - For Websites - In-App Events Tracking - Log Analysis ## Integrations (4 total) - OpsGenie - PagerDuty - Slack - Splunk On-Call ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support ## Category - [Website Optimisation Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4680/website-optimization/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Optimisation Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4680/website-optimization/software) - [Server Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4570/server-management/software) - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) - [Mobile Analytics Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4372/mobile-analytics/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It is not cheap for all the options. ----- ### "Pingdom Is Like an XRay into Your Site" — 4.0/5 > **Tony** | *6 December 2019* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "One of the originals, but no longer the best" — 3.0/5 > **Chris** | *11 April 2018* | Design | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **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. ----- ### "An All-In-One Website Performance Suite" — 4.0/5 > **Nigel Masimba** | *15 June 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Great website-monitoring product" — 5.0/5 > **Yaniv** | *31 March 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. > > This software helps me be alerted in case some of our domains are suffering from constant instability ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/411661/pingdom?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/411661/pingdom) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data