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Pingdom is joining SolarWinds
- pyrox420 12y agoDon't mess this up SolarWinds....
- MattBearman 12y agoI 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
- thehodge 12y agoAgreed.. very confusing messaging..
- jmeickle 12y agoThe 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.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoExactly 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.
- verelo 12y agoI 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)
- edwinnathaniel 12y agoWhy 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 http://www.appneta.com [2] http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/ http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/ [3] http://www.appneta.com/products/appview/ http://www.appneta.com/products/appview/
- ceejayoz 12y agoThe 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".
- fasteo 12y ago+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
- verelo 12y agoI 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.
- kenrose 12y agoInstead 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.
- karlkatzke 12y agoCalled it last week when SolarWinds started posting lots of Linux Admin jobs.
- dkhenry 12y agoSo 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
- crazypyro 12y ago"God damnit guys, start putting \r's on your newlines!"
- clavalle 12y agoIn Austin, that probably won't be too difficult. Expensive, but not difficult.
- mrjatx 12y agoShouldn'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.
- clavalle 12y agoSolarWinds 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.
- karlkatzke 12y agoAbsolutely. There is a lot of moderate talent on the ground.
- adventured 12y agoI 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.
- incision 12y agoMaybe now they'll find the time, money, give-a-shit or whatever to address this maddening omission [1] (Can't omit check sources by geography). 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/suggestions/2223355-ability-to-choose-which-probe-servers-to-use http://pingdom.uservoice.com/forums/113203-my-pingdom/sugges...
- edwhitesell 12y agoI'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.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoNow may be your time to build your service.
- windexh8er 12y agoAgreed, 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.
- freakezoid 12y agoTake a look at PRTG from Paessler ;)
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- deancognation 12y agopingdom works great, we've been using them for the LiveFanChat.com sites for the past 2 years and never had a problem
- ultimoo 12y agoPingdom 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.
- freeasinfree 12y agoUgh, Solarwinds. The most inflexible, Windows-only software I've ever used. Goodbye Pingdom.
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- carinanardi 12y agoas 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