Automation & Integration
Pingdom
From $16.50
Established businesses that want uptime checks, browser transaction monitoring and real user monitoring from one long-standing vendor, and are fine paying more per check.
Quick overview
- Pricing
- From $16.50/month (10 uptime checks, annual); 30-day trial, no free plan
- Plans
- Synthetic Monitoring is priced by a quantity slider rather than named tiers. Annual billing per month (monthly billing in brackets): 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS for $16.50 ($18); 25 uptime, 4 advanced, 100 SMS for $36.33 ($40); 50 uptime, 10 advanced, 200 SMS for $71.50 ($78); 100 uptime, 20 advanced, 350 SMS for $136.42 ($149); 200 uptime, 30 advanced, 400 SMS for $265.17 ($290); 500 uptime, 50 advanced, 1,000 SMS for $622.67 ($680). Advanced checks are browser transaction checks. Real User Monitoring is priced separately from $18/month for 100,000 pageviews. Public status pages are included. 30-day free trial covering Synthetics and RUM; Enterprise on request.
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Key features
- Uptime checks for HTTP(S), ping, TCP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP
- Transaction (advanced) checks in a real Chrome browser, built with a recorder
- 100+ probe servers worldwide, selectable by region
- A second confirmation check before every alert to filter false positives
- Root-cause analysis with traceroute
- Public status pages and Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Pros
- SMS credits included at every tier
- Recorder-based browser transaction checks without writing code
- Real User Monitoring available alongside synthetic checks
- Large probe network and confirmation checks before alerting
Cons
- No free plan
- Expensive per check: $16.50/month on annual billing buys 10 uptime checks
- Fastest uptime interval is 1 minute; transaction checks run at most every 5 minutes
Sarah Chen