APM Integrated Experience

We’ve got great news for everyone monitoring their websites through our iPhone app: we’ve given it a complete makeover! Earlier this year, we released a major update to our Android app that made it easier to navigate and presented your data in a way that was more comprehensible and nicer to look at. We’ve now […]

Please allow us to do a shameless plug for our friends over at Librato and Traceview who have created AppOptics. AppOptics is a new service that brings the best of both application performance monitoring (APM) for your web apps and real-time monitoring for every level of your stack, into one single dashboard. Think of it a […]

Sometimes seeing really is believing, and our Page Speed reports are no exception. Earlier this month we release our new Filmstrip feature, which gives you a visual timeline of how your page loads with every test you run. If you’re wondering how to make the most out of our new feature, we’ll show you how […]

We have added some new features and updated some existing ones to improve users Digital Experience Monitoring. As it turns out chief among the findings of the recent SolarWinds Digital Experience Monitoring Survey* are that companies around the world are experiencing digital issues that negatively affect their businesses at an alarming rate. 42% of IT […]

In addition to the the stream of updates and new features we have rolled out, like new test locations in Latin America, a revamped Live Map and an updated Android app, we’re excited to announce our latest offering: the Filmstrip function and timeline metrics for Page Speed monitoring! Filmstrip gives you a visual aid to […]

We’re excited to tell you that this week we’ve added 7 locations in Latin America to our ever-growing list of probe servers from which you can test your website’s availability and performance! Latin America is the world’s fastest growing online market. For us at Pingdom, the addition of these probe servers was a logical step […]

The new version of the Pingdom Android app makes notifications even better. One of the features we’ve been wanting to add for some time now is the custom sound for alerting. Why? Well, notifications shouldn’t be overlooked because they sound the same as every other notification you get during the day. That’s why we are happy to say […]

When we talk about website outages, we usually think of when something really big happens, like when Facebook goes down or when an error in code took AWS Eastern US servers offline for hours. In reality, website incidents and outages are happening all the time. In fact, we registered over 225 outages in the time […]

Everybody knows that slow is the new down when it comes to websites. If your site takes too long to load, it might as well be completely unavailable! With our Page Speed Monitoring tool, you can see what parts of your website load quickly and what parts take up too much time. By identifying these […]

Pingdom is part of the SolarWinds family, and as such we are very excited to announce that SolarWinds has completed the acquisition of Scout’s SaaS-based server monitoring technology. The new service is now available under the Pingdom flag, marketed and sold as SolarWinds Pingdom Server Monitor. This addition provides enhanced capabilities for our customers monitoring […]

A while back we delivered a report on social media demographics as they stood in 2012. Now, 5 years on, things are looking different: some have been all but consigned to the Internet mausoleum that is Archive.org (may they rest in peace) whilst others have shot into the limelight. Of course, the main players like Facebook, […]

We had the pleasure of attending this year’s From Business to Buttons conference in Stockholm and, as always, the speakers were second to none. From AirBnb’s Katie Dill talking about how good User Experience starts well before a user actually starts engaging with a product, to Mike Monteiro being, well, himself and telling it like […]

You may not be familiar with the term Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) yet, but your business continuity may depend on how quickly you learn it. I also wrote a quick primer earlier you can read here.  DEM is one of the primary functions of application performance monitoring (APM). Gartner projects that by 2020, about seven […]

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is a newly defined area within the world of application performance monitoring (APM). Gartner has broken up APM into three “functional dimensions” for coverage in their magic quadrant market assessment tool: DEM, application discovery, tracing and diagnostics (ADTD), and application analytics (AA). Gartner defines DEM as “an availability and performance monitoring […]

Whether it be a European city break, a hike in the mountains or sipping cocktails that come with little umbrellas on an idyllic beach, we all love holidays. That’s why the online travel industry is big business—worth $533.52 billion in 2015—and shows no signs of slowing down. With thousands of travel companies competing for your […]

Today we released a new version of our Pingdom app for Android. As part of our drive to built a more positive user experience in all of our products and tools, we’ve given our Android app a facelift. Here’s what’s new: A more informative interface that is more intuitive to navigate and gives you a seamless […]

News, we all consume it on a daily basis. From our laptops, tablets, and our phone. We rely on the media outlet for instant reports on politics, sports, entertainment, and everything else. More and more of us are choosing to digest our news online as opposed to traditional, print mediums. But just how good of […]

The time is drawing near for the holidays and we’d like to wish you a very happy winter break.  Of course, we’d also like to remind you that just because offices shut and people go to spend some quality time with their folks, the Internet never sleeps. If you need to get in touch with […]

In order to achieve a faster and more reliable internet we’re making our uptime monitoring accessible to everyone for free. We are reintroducing our popular free plan meaning you’ll be able to automatically monitor your site’s availability every minute from all over with world. So should an incident occur—and incidents will happen—you will be the […]

At Pingdom HQ, it’s snowing and people are wearing sweaters of questionable taste. In short, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We’re feeling merry and would love to share our Christmas cheer with all of you. That’s why we’d like to offer a 50% discount to all new customers who sign up for […]