Pingdom
A website monitoring service that tracks uptime and performance using synthetic testing and real user data collection
- Also known as
- pingdom
Available worldwide · Popular in: GB
What is Pingdom?
Combines automated testing from 100+ global locations with real user monitoring to provide visibility into website availability, performance, and user experience across browsers and devices.
Pingdom pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Pay-per-plan subscription model. 30-day free trial. Annual and monthly billing available.
Synthetic Monitoring
Automated monitoring of application availability, performance, and transaction flows
- Transaction monitoring
- Page speed monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Email and SMS alerting
- Maintenance windows
- Public status pages and reports
- Unlimited users
Real User Monitoring
Insight into actual user experience and application performance from end-user perspective
- Unlimited number of sites
- Unlimited users
- Shareable reports
- Performance filtering
- 13-month data retention
Enterprise
Contact salesFor high-volume deployments with 500K to 5M+ pageviews per month
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Slack
- VictorOps
- OpsGenie
- PagerDuty
- HipChat
- SMS
Pingdom alternatives
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Compare Pingdom
Side by side against other api monitoring, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Pingdom, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 70 | 0.07 | 5.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-17 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 60% |