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March 2023

12 Alternatives to Pingdom for Checking Your Website's Health

Now that Pingdom has permanently closed its doors to free users, many customers are searching for alternatives to stand in the gap for their website performance monitoring needs. Web monitoring keeps you from losing potential business because of service or site downtime. David Sanchez of Mammoth Web Solutions says: “You have to continuously monitor your domain, because every new integration can affect domain performance.

How Synthetic Transaction Monitoring Provides Complete Site Visibility & Why Basic Monitoring is Not Enough

We’ve all been in the situation before: it’s Friday at 5 PM and the only on-call engineer available to handle incidents is about to hit the slopes. Unfortunately, at that very moment, a customer reports to support that they are unable to access the company’s ecommerce website to complete a purchase. Internal monitoring systems seem quiet and services appear available on internal health dashboards.

How Synthetic Transaction Monitoring Provides Complete Site Visibility

We’ve all been in the situation before: it’s Friday at 5 PM and the only on-call engineer available to handle incidents is about to hit the slopes. Unfortunately, at that very moment, a customer reports to support that they are unable to access the company’s ecommerce website to complete a purchase. Internal monitoring systems seem quiet and services appear available on internal health dashboards.