Announcing SolarWinds Observability

“Gotta catch ‘em all!” goes the famous phrase and here at Pingdom we’re no exception to the Pokémon Go addiction that is sweeping the world. Except that sometimes we just can’t catch them all because the Pokémon Go servers go down. With their recent launch in over 26 countries, their servers have really been feeling the […]

Some of you may have noticed that over the past 4 days, we have experienced some issues and downtime to areas of our service, which, we know is frustrating. In the spirit of transparency, we’d like to share the good, the bad and the ugly of what went down (pun intended), how we fixed it […]

By now you all know that we just love measuring and analyzing the performance of websites here at Pingdom. Last time, we did revisited the web performance of the world’s top 50 blogs. But why stop there? After all, there’s so much more to the Internet than just blogs. That’s why we decided to give the world’s […]

It’s common knowledge by now that here at Pingdom we’re a big bunch of data nerds with a soft spot for crunching numbers and getting excited by nice graphs. Yes, we are that but we’re also so much more. In our offices, we’ve got quite a varied group of people with an even wider variety […]

When you’re trying to keep your finger to the pulse of your website or application and a performance issue arises, notifying your IT team is only part of a professional response. What about notifying your end-users? When an application goes down, or experiences noticeable performance issues, users will reach out. External customers will contact Support, internal […]

Here at Pingdom, we’re a diverse and varied bunch – if you put us all in the same room, it would be like a giant game of Who’s Who, what with all the funny mustaches, haircuts and questionable taste in shoes we all have. But here we all have one thing in common: we were […]

Say one thing about Pingdom, say we listen to our customers. For a while now, we’ve received a steady flow of production requests for new features. Our number one most requested feature (by a country mile) was PDF reports, so you could share the results of your various checks. Coming in at second place was the ability to […]

Spring is officially here and with it, Easter. Here in Sweden, it’s time for påskäggsjakten, where parents hide eggs around the house and garden and let loose their kids to find as many as possible. With that in mind, it’s time to grab your baskets and go an hunt for all the messages, jokes and […]

Over the years, we have seen a lively community around uptime and performance monitoring from Pingdom. Many of the thoughts and ideas from this community through blog post comments, Twitter, and previously User Voice interactions, have allowed us to grow and mature along with our users. In a recent blog post we mentioned how we […]

Shiver me timbers, we’ve finally released webhooks for Pingdom! As of today, you can set up a state change webhook to the URL(s) of your choosing to notify you when a certain event occurs on the site you are monitoring. Webhooks are a perfect solution when you want to create a script or service that […]

When you talk to our support team at Pingdom, you’re talking to real people who listen. Tech support is an often discussed matter, and to us it’s one of the most important parts of our company. It provides us with incredibly valuable suggestions, requests, and bug reports. Switching the support system for more than 700,000 […]

People using our services would be very familiar with our basic HTTP Uptime check by now. After all, it’s our most used feature. Something a lot of our users might not know is that you can make the HTTP checks more advanced by using the Optional settings of the check.  You find these settings under […]

We love to measure and analyze the web performance of sites here on the Royal Pingdom blog. It’s time to revisit the web performance of the world’s top 50 blogs. It’s worth pointing out that one important finding of this 2016 study, was that it is really hard to define what is considered a blog. When we did […]

After a ton of research and requests from customers and developers alike, we’re very excited to announce the Pingdom Page Speed monitoring – a brand new product added to our monitoring suite. Page Speed monitoring perfectly complements the different types of monitoring we already offer. The Page Speed monitoring will give you even better insights […]

When a big website goes down it’s not long until Twitter is full of tweets lamenting that it’s down. We have written about this many times in the past, but in the wake of Twitters own outage tonight it’s a little bit interesting to see where people turn to for information, since Twitter is the primary news source for […]

In 2015 the interest for web performance and availability soared to new heights. To celebrate our love for the internet we’d like to share some interesting numbers. Pingdom Year in Review 2015 We pulled some interesting stats from the vast number of data we have, and for instance, here is what a web page looked like in […]

You can think about your web site the way you think about your car. Every time something breaks, you can run to a professional – be it an engineer or a mechanic – and pay a lot of money for the fix (and isn’t it annoying when you can’t even tell if it is a […]

We are excited to announce that Pingdom’s Heroku Add-on is now generally available to all Heroku users in the Elements Add-on Marketplace.  The add-on has everything Heroku users need for website or web app monitoring, including: Uptime monitoring: Check that your website or web app is available every minute automatically – over 70 global polling locations in […]

Before you begin reading further: Are you offering products, services, or solutions online? Does your business depend on user activity on your website? If the answer is yes, you should be reading this post, and sharing it with your IT team, too. For companies that depend on online transactions on their website—could be a retail […]

Website unavailability, connections issues, and slow response time can be attributed to incorrect DNS configuration. You can exactly pinpoint it’s a DNS configuration issue when you’re unable to access a website using it’s DNS name, for example, www.wsj.com On the other hand, if you know this site’s IP address, accessing it may be faster because […]