Alternatives to Pingdom
SolarWinds' synthetic and real-user monitoring
Pingdom ranks #7 of 8 in Uptime monitoring, with an Alt Score of 60. It is proprietary, sold by subscription from €16/month and available on the web. 7 of 10 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
DevOps teams, SREs, and web/IT ops professionals responsible for keeping websites, applications, and APIs available and fast for end users.
Uptime monitoring that checks site and server availability from 100+ global probe locations, synthetic transaction monitoring that scripts real Chrome browser journeys (login, checkout, search) to catch functional and performance regressions, and real user monitoring (RUM) that passively captures actual visitor load times and behavior via a lightweight JavaScript snippet. Alerts route through email, SMS, and integrations like Slack, PagerDuty, and Statuspage when checks fail.
You set up checks (uptime, page speed, or multi-step transactions) or add a RUM tracking snippet to your site; Pingdom's global probe network or real visitor traffic then continuously measures availability and performance, triggering alerts and reporting through a web dashboard when thresholds are breached.
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Ranked alternatives
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Feature comparison
How Pingdom compares with its alternatives, feature by feature.
| Uptime monitoring checklist | Pingdom | Checkly | Better Stack | UptimeRobot | StatusCake | Uptime Kuma |
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Every fact and feature listed for Pingdom is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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Starts at €16/month verified 2026-07-10
16"" — Cheapest Synthetic Monitoring tier: 10 Uptime Checks, 1 Advanced Check, 50 SMS Alerts (€14.33/mo billed annually).
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-10
SolarWinds hereby grants You a limited, nonexclusive, non-transferable license to access, use, and install
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Pricing model Subscription verified 2026-07-10
30-day trial then paid subscription; no permanent free tier.
First 30 days free Trial includes Synthetics & RUM
https://www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring/ -
Platforms Web verified 2026-07-10
click on Synthetics in the side menu and select Probe Servers, or navigate to the following URL [https://my.pingdom.com/app/probes]
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/pingdom-probe-servers-ip-addresses.htm -
Status active verified 2026-07-10
© 2026 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Check interval (free tier) No verified 2026-07-10
No free tier — trial only.
First 30 days free Trial includes Synthetics & RUM
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Status pages Yes verified 2026-07-10
Pingdoms easy to use public status pages let you easily share uptime to your customers or colleagues. Included in all plans, takes 10 seconds to set up, trusted by everyone.
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SSL expiry alerts Yes verified 2026-07-10
Certificate monitoring, sometimes referred to as SSL monitoring, is available for Uptime HTTP checks when HTTPS is selected when setting up a check.
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/certificate-monitoring-in-uptime-checks.htm -
Alert channels (Slack, SMS, webhook) Yes verified 2026-07-10
Receive an alert via SMS, email or webhook the moment an incident occurs
https://www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring/ -
Incident management Partial verified 2026-07-10
Via third-party integrations (PagerDuty), not native incident management.
PagerDuty helps you manage alerts and incidents.
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/integrations-with-support-for-pingdom.htm -
Response-time graphs Yes verified 2026-07-10
Examine an app’s response time, configure elements, and prevent recurring issues.
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API access Yes verified 2026-07-10
The documentation for our public API can be found here
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/the-pingdom-api.htm
FAQ
Yes. Checkly, Better Stack and UptimeRobot have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
Uptime Kuma, Gatus and Healthchecks — every license claim links its source.