Pinger Man
Pinger Man monitors website uptime and response time, along with domains, SSL certificates, ports, DNS, ping, keywords, and website defacement.
What Pinger Man is
Pinger Man monitors website uptime and response time, along with domains, SSL certificates, ports, DNS, ping, keywords, and website defacement. It says its globally distributed monitoring servers help reduce false downtime notifications. Alerts can be sent by email, SMS, Slack, Twitter, or webhooks. Users can make public status pages with current service status, uptime statistics, incidents, and response times; weekly reports and historical response-time views are also available. The service lists integrations for AWS Route53 domain import, Azure, Namecheap, Slack, Twitter, and webhooks. A REST API can automate Pinger Man, though API calls use account credits. There is a free plan, paid plans starting at $1 a month, and a 14-day trial; the pricing page says users must manually upgrade to a paid subscription after the trial. The plan audience ranges from individual users to large teams. The privacy policy says sensitive information is encrypted using SSL and that transactions are processed by a gateway rather than stored or processed on Pinger Man servers. It also states the service does not use vulnerability or PCI scanning.
Good
- Monitors uptime, response time, SSL, and DNS
- Alerts available through email, SMS, Slack, Twitter, and webhooks
- Public status pages show incidents and response times
- Free plan available
- 14-day trial
Watch out
- Free plan includes five monitors
- Free plan allows one SMS per month
- API calls consume account credits
- Trial requires a manual upgrade afterward
Who it suits
Pinger Man may suit individuals, solopreneurs, small teams, and large teams looking to monitor websites and related services. Its free plan and paid tiers provide options for different monitor and team capacities.
Verdict
Pinger Man combines a broad set of monitoring checks with alerts, public status pages, and reporting. The free tier is limited to five monitors, while paid plans start at $1 a month.
Plans and prices
From Pinger Man's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 monitors · 5 min. monitoring · 1 SMS/month · email alerts · $0 / mo or $0 / yr |
| Solo | $1 a month | 10 monitors · 1 min. monitoring · 2 SMS/month · SMS and Slack alerts · status pages · email support · $1 / mo or $12 / yr |
| Team | $20 a month | 200 monitors · 1 min. monitoring · 30 SMS/month · 3 team members · webhook alerts · phone support · $20 / mo or $206 / yr |
| Enterprise | $50 a month | 500 monitors · 1 min. monitoring · 50 SMS/month · 5 team members · cloud cost monitor · AWS, Azure and Namecheap integrations · REST API · $50 / mo or $490 / yr |
The facts
Each one read from Pinger Man's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alerts
- Downtime notifications are available through email, SMS, Slack, Twitter, and webhooks.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Audience
- The pricing page describes Free for individual users, Solo for solopreneurs, Team for small teams, and Enterprise for large teams.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Availability claim
- The About page states that Pinger Man has 99.9% availability.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Distributed checks
- The service says globally distributed monitoring servers help reduce false positive downtime notifications.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- The site lists AWS Route53 domain import, Azure, Namecheap, Slack, Twitter, and webhook integrations.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Monitoring
- Pinger Man monitors website uptime and response time, domains, SSL certificates, ports, DNS, ping, keywords, and website defacement.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Privacy and security
- The privacy policy says sensitive information is encrypted using SSL, transactions are processed by a gateway and are not stored or processed on Pinger Man servers, and the service does not use vulnerability scanning or PCI scanning.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Reports
- Pinger Man offers weekly monitor reports and historical website response-time views.checked 8 Oct 2001
- REST API
- A REST API is available to automate Pinger Man, and API calls consume account credits.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Status pages
- Users can create public status pages showing real-time service status, uptime statistics, downtime incidents, and response times.checked 8 Oct 2001
- Support
- The About page says email support is available and that the team usually responds the same day.checked 8 Oct 2001
The company
- Maker
- Pinger Man identifies itself as a product by Maxotek, and its About page names Partho Sarathi as founder.checked 8 Oct 2001
Money
- Trial
- The pricing page offers a 14-day trial and says users must manually upgrade to a paid subscription afterward.checked 8 Oct 2001
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