PulseAPI vs Pingdom
A modern alternative to Pingdom
Pingdom is a legacy uptime monitoring brand now owned by SolarWinds. It built its name in the 2000s as one of the first cloud monitoring services. While still functional, its UI feels dated, pricing is confusing with per-monitor tiers, and it lacks modern incident management workflows.
Comparaison des fonctionnalites
Comment PulseAPI se compare a Pingdom sur les fonctionnalites qui comptent.
10 seconds (Pro)
60 seconds
25 (Basic), unlimited (Pro)
10 (Starter at $15/mo), up to 250
Unlimited (Pro), custom domains, branding
Available, limited customization
Built-in with postmortems and auto-incidents
Basic alerting only, no incident workflow
Daily/weekly/custom with escalation
Not available
40+ permissions, custom roles
Basic user roles
Not included (API-focused)
Available as add-on (RUM)
Response time assertions and baselines
Dedicated page speed checks
$19/mo for 25 endpoints
$15/mo for 10 monitors
Pourquoi les equipes choisissent PulseAPI
Les avantages specifiques qui font de PulseAPI le meilleur choix pour les equipes en croissance.
Modern developer experience
Pingdom UI was designed for a different era. PulseAPI has a clean, fast dashboard built with modern tooling — real-time updates via SSE, dark mode, and a responsive interface that does not feel like enterprise software from 2012.
Incident response built in
Pingdom sends alerts. PulseAPI manages the full incident lifecycle: auto-create incidents on downtime, track timeline updates, write postmortems, and notify subscribers automatically. No third-party incident tool needed.
Better value per monitor
Pingdom Starter gives you 10 monitors for $15/month. PulseAPI Basic gives you 25 endpoints for $19/month with 30-second intervals, incident management, and 2 status pages included.
On-call and escalation
Pingdom has no concept of on-call schedules or escalation policies. PulseAPI routes alerts to the right person based on rotation schedules and escalates automatically when issues are not acknowledged.
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Real User Monitoring (RUM) for measuring actual visitor experience — PulseAPI is synthetic-only
Page speed testing with waterfall analysis for frontend performance optimization
Long-standing enterprise relationships and proven reliability over 15+ years
Questions frequentes
Questions courantes sur le passage de Pingdom a PulseAPI.
For API and uptime monitoring, yes. PulseAPI offers faster check intervals, built-in incident management, and on-call scheduling that Pingdom lacks. If you rely heavily on Pingdom Real User Monitoring or page speed analysis, you may need a complementary tool for those.
Pingdom prices by number of monitors in tiers: 10 monitors at $15/month, 50 at $49/month. PulseAPI Basic includes 25 endpoints with incident management for $19/month. PulseAPI Pro at $49/month gives unlimited endpoints — where Pingdom charges significantly more.
PulseAPI supports HTTP checks with custom headers, request bodies, and 7 assertion types. For multi-step API workflows, you can set up multiple endpoints with assertions. Pingdom offers browser-based transaction monitoring which is a different approach for UI testing.
Since SolarWinds acquired Pingdom, development has slowed. The UI has not kept up with modern tools, pricing has increased, and there is no incident management or on-call. Teams want a single tool that monitors and helps respond — not just alert.
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