Pingdom is joining SolarWinds(royal.pingdom.com)
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Pingdom is joining SolarWinds
http://royal.pingdom.com/2014/06/18/pingdom-joining-solarwinds/
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I'm working on a startup[1] that provides internal & external site monitoring[2], and I hadn't thought of that feature... good call! Currently it shows 2 graphics: the response time from each location and the aggregate for the week by day. We only have New York and California locations, but we plan on expanding to Europe soon.
If anyone is having a slow day at work and wants to play, feedback is always appreciated: https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel Shameless self-promotion over :-)
[1] https://www.metrink.com [2] https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel
If anyone is having a slow day at work and wants to play, feedback is always appreciated: https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel Shameless self-promotion over :-)
[1] https://www.metrink.com [2] https://www.metrink.com/whitelabel
I've never used Pingdom (or any service like it), but I've considered building a monitoring service for a number of years. The ability to configure monitoring and/or alerting by geographic region (if not specific nodes) has always been in the top 5 list of features.
Now may be your time to build your service.
Agreed, but wait until I build mine first. ;)
Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition.
Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them.
I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition.
Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them.
I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
Take a look at PRTG from Paessler ;)
Off the top of my head, siteuptime.com and copperegg.com offer this
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Pingdom is a good product and I've used it with moderate success.
However, sometimes I can't help but chuckle at the marketing and productization genius of someone who monetized the classic `ping`! Anyway, congratulations to the pingdom team on the acquisition and hope to see a more comprehensive API from them soon.
However, sometimes I can't help but chuckle at the marketing and productization genius of someone who monetized the classic `ping`! Anyway, congratulations to the pingdom team on the acquisition and hope to see a more comprehensive API from them soon.
as a nice alternative there is also Monitis, all-in-one monitoring platform, so it is quite suitable for any operational needs. by the way, they have recently integrated with pagerduty and zapier. www.monitis.com
Ugh, Solarwinds. The most inflexible, Windows-only software I've ever used. Goodbye Pingdom.
Don't mess this up SolarWinds....
I thought it was odd that this statement seems to avoid using words like 'acquire', 'buy' or anything else the would mean Pingom has been purchased by SolarWinds. It wasn't until I clicked on the FAQ link that I was sure that an acquisition has just happened :s
The Solarwinds brand isn't as flashy as the Pingdom brand. It makes sense that they'd want to maintain as much independence as possible until they decide whether to eat it or not.
Exactly this.
When I think Solarwinds, I think crufty enterprise shop that needs polished monitoring tools. When I think Pingdom, I think external monitoring for my startup app.
When I think Solarwinds, I think crufty enterprise shop that needs polished monitoring tools. When I think Pingdom, I think external monitoring for my startup app.
Agreed.. very confusing messaging..
I really feel that in a world with tools like Newrelic that pingdom is starting to lose its value. I know there are significant differences between the two, but in terms of what I personally rely on each day to keep a tab on things, I can say that for me Pingdom is far less critical than it once was.
I hope this deal sees them innovate beyond a UI refresh (Which is just about all thats changed in the last 10 years)
I hope this deal sees them innovate beyond a UI refresh (Which is just about all thats changed in the last 10 years)
The UI refresh was a bit of a disaster. Pingdom didn't need significant changes because it worked well at what it did. I just wanted to know when my servers went down and when they came back up.
Now with their UI change I can't even change the SMS provider to use, which means one of our devops staff doesn't get the SMSes he's supposed to. He also gets changed from the US country code to Afghanistan's. I've got a trouble ticket open with them that keeps getting auto-closed after 120 hours of "inactivity" because they said "yep, that looks like a bug, we'll let you know when fixed".
Now with their UI change I can't even change the SMS provider to use, which means one of our devops staff doesn't get the SMSes he's supposed to. He also gets changed from the US country code to Afghanistan's. I've got a trouble ticket open with them that keeps getting auto-closed after 120 hours of "inactivity" because they said "yep, that looks like a bug, we'll let you know when fixed".
I agree, i found the UI changes to be a real downgrade to what was a perfectly usable service. Just the other day i was trying to track down an error and it took me about 10 minutes to track down the right page.
It feels like a real mess now.
It feels like a real mess now.
Came here to say the same thing. Total disaster. The alerting / notification almost completely broke. We stopped getting SMSs. Can't configure contacts. Have some ghost contacts appearing in one place, but not another. The pingdom support won't help at all, or won't answer for days...
Really sad. It was a great simple service that just worked. Straightforward to manage. Did one thing and did it well. Now it's a bunch of shiny screens that end up adding confusion and it's not even working.
Really sad. It was a great simple service that just worked. Straightforward to manage. Did one thing and did it well. Now it's a bunch of shiny screens that end up adding confusion and it's not even working.
+1 the new UI is a mess. They don´t seem to realize that function over form is what we expect from services like this.
Their IOS app is quite good though. Every time I get an alert, I go directly to my Iphone
Their IOS app is quite good though. Every time I get an alert, I go directly to my Iphone
Instead of using Pingdom's SMS, you could always hook up another system that more reliably delivers alerts (e.g., PagerDuty).
Full disclosure: I work for PagerDuty.
Full disclosure: I work for PagerDuty.
Yeah, we did that, and just had all of our PagerDuty alerts go off when Pingdom sent out their nice marketing email (which PagerDuty validly took as an "incident").
Thankfully it was basically morning, depending on the time zone.
Thankfully it was basically morning, depending on the time zone.
I doubt this acquisition was aimed at Pingdom's tech stack so much as their 26 employees and 500k+ users that SolarWinds can now upsell into more expansive monitoring solutions.
We use stackdriver and pagerduty. Replaced all other monitoring tools.
Isn't Stackdriver owned by Google now?
Yep. We were using them prior... and honestly their service is amazing. Very un-google from a customer support perspective - Stackdrivers support is fantastic.
Why not have all?
Come and check out AppNeta[1]. We have both APM[2] (like NewRelic) and NPM[3] (Gomez, Pingdom) and even more! (like SolarWinds offerings)
Disclaimer: I work for AppNeta.
[1] http://www.appneta.com
[2] http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/
[3] http://www.appneta.com/products/appview/
Come and check out AppNeta[1]. We have both APM[2] (like NewRelic) and NPM[3] (Gomez, Pingdom) and even more! (like SolarWinds offerings)
Disclaimer: I work for AppNeta.
[1] http://www.appneta.com
[2] http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/
[3] http://www.appneta.com/products/appview/
Called it last week when SolarWinds started posting lots of Linux Admin jobs.
So a windows shop acquires a Linux based cloud service and thinks it will be able to hire its way to Linux competency. Good Luck with that
In Austin, that probably won't be too difficult. Expensive, but not difficult.
Shouldn't be expensive. Plenty of "1st admin job" webhosts in town. Although I don't know why anyone would leave them for a job at Solarwinds.
SolarWinds is a good place to work AFAIK.
All of the employees that I know are cool people and very happy there and the pay, if I remember correctly, was pretty good.
BTW, the good admins are not coming out of the standard webhost support roles. Those people are cheap, but for good reason. The higher tiers at those shops, maybe.
All of the employees that I know are cool people and very happy there and the pay, if I remember correctly, was pretty good.
BTW, the good admins are not coming out of the standard webhost support roles. Those people are cheap, but for good reason. The higher tiers at those shops, maybe.
Absolutely. There is a lot of moderate talent on the ground.
"God damnit guys, start putting \r's on your newlines!"
I find the phrasing on Pingdom's site to be fascinating.
On SolarWinds' site, it's an acquisition, plain as can be.
On Pingdom's site, they're pretending they're 'joining forces.'
Pingdom just got bought by a public company. It sounds like they're in for a reality check.
On SolarWinds' site, it's an acquisition, plain as can be.
On Pingdom's site, they're pretending they're 'joining forces.'
Pingdom just got bought by a public company. It sounds like they're in for a reality check.
Link to SolarWinds' statement:
http://www.solarwinds.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/ye...
http://www.solarwinds.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/ye...
they're in for a reality check, and probably a pretty fat paycheck :)
pingdom works great, we've been using them for the LiveFanChat.com sites for the past 2 years and never had a problem
If nothing else, this move will give me a recognizable name to refer to when trying to convince certain folks to dump some of the truly awful monitoring services out there. Not long ago I encountered a place that was paying one of the old giants $1100/yr per target for simple pings and email only alerts.
1: http://pingdom.uservoice.com/forums/113203-my-pingdom/sugges...