Website Down Detector

Don’t just ask “is my website down?” Get instant alerts from global locations and find the root cause before your customers are impacted.

Know Instantly, From Everywhere

A simple check from your own browser can be misleading. Your site might work perfectly for you, but be down for customers in another city or country. SolarWinds Pingdom acts as your global watchdog, using a network of synthetic probe servers to test your site’s availability as often as every minute. Our synthetic probes simulate a user’s behavior like loading a page, logging in, or checking availability to your website at scheduled intervals. It’s like having a team of people all over the world constantly refreshing your site for you. These synthetic probes provide checks across multiple geographical locations from regions, countries, or specific cities to run tests on an ongoing basis. Set up synthetic checks on a schedule and compare results across locations to more easily pinpoint issues.

Detect Every Type of Outage

A website can be “down” in many ways that go beyond a total connection failure. SolarWinds Pingdom detects a wide range of issues that stop your users in their tracks. Check for slow load times that exceed your preset thresholds, specific HTTP error codes like 403 Forbidden or 500 Internal Server Error, connection timeouts, and even confirm that specific text is present on a page. Think of it this way: if a crucial “Add to Cart” button disappears from your e-commerce site, your site is effectively down for business. SolarWinds Pingdom can detect that specific failure and let you know immediately, ensuring the entire user experience is functional, not just the homepage.

Get Alerts That Can't Be Ignored

Finding out your site is down from an angry customer on social media is a business nightmare. Synthetic Monitoring ensures you’re always the first to know. Turn reactive scrambling into proactive monitoring with Synthetic Monitoring to simulate user traffic to your most critical digital paths. You can customize alerts to be sent via email or integrated directly into tools your team already uses. You are in complete control of when and how you’re notified. You can set a delay so you’re not bothered by minor, temporary blips, or get instant alerts for your most critical services. You can even specify who gets alerted and set up repeat notifications if an outage persists, making sure the right people are always on the case, fast.

Don't Just Detect, Diagnose

Knowing your site is down is only half the battle; fixing it quickly is what really matters. A simple “website down detector” leaves you guessing, but SolarWinds Pingdom gives you the tools to find the problem fast. Every confirmed outage includes Root Cause Assist, which provides a traceroute, and other technical details to help you troubleshoot what went wrong. You can also review the detailed test results, which show every single check our servers made, the response time, and the specific error they received. This lets you pinpoint if the issue is a firewall blocking our probes, a server error, or a network problem, so you can stop guessing and start fixing.

Know Instantly, From Everywhere

Detect Every Type of Outage

Get Alerts That Can't Be Ignored

Don't Just Detect, Diagnose

Stop Reacting to Downtime. Start Preventing It.