Pingdom
7.8#2 in uptime monitoring softwareFrom $16.50 a monthAndroidiOSWebAPI
VisitPingdom vs SolidPing
What both publish
| Fact | Pingdom | SolidPing |
|---|---|---|
| Alert channels | Email,SMS,push notifications,Slack,PagerDuty,Opsgenie,VictorOps,HipChat,webhooks | Slack,Discord,Microsoft Teams,Google Chat,Mattermost,Matrix,Zulip,Telegram,Email,Webhooks,PagerDuty,ntfy,Gotify,Pushover,Web Push,SMS,voice via Twilio |
| Alerts | Incident alerts can be sent by SMS, email, push notification, or webhook, and Pingdom performs a second check before alerting to filter false positives. | Alerts are available through Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Mattermost, Matrix, Zulip, Telegram, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, Web Push, and Twilio SMS or voice. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Security | SolarWinds provides a security information page linked from Pingdom's site. | The hosted service states that it uses TLS 1.2 or above in transit, storage-layer encryption at rest, application-layer encryption for selected credentials, and Argon2id password hashing by default. |
| Server monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SSL expiry alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Status pages | Public status pages are included in all plans and can show current status and historical data. | Public status pages support sections, subscribers, incident updates, and per-check uptime and response-time metrics; custom domains are metered by plan. |
| Support | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. | The maker lists [email protected] and GitHub Issues as support routes. |
Pingdom plans
- Real User Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Synthetic Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Real User Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- Synthetic Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
SolidPing plans
- FreeFree
- Starter€5 a month
- Pro€15 a month
- Scale€45 a month
- Self-hostedFree
Pick Pingdom if…
Pingdom suits digital marketers, web developers, and hosting providers needing uptime, speed, transaction, or real-user monitoring. It also fits teams that need many alert channels and public status pages.
Pick SolidPing if…
SolidPing suits teams that need uptime checks, alert routing, on-call scheduling, and public status pages. It offers a hosted option as well as a self-hosted version for users who want to run it themselves.