FortiMonitor vs. SolarWinds Pingdom

SolarWinds Pingdom

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiMonitor	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted. It is based on Panopta, which was acquired by Fortinet in late 2020.	N/A
SolarWinds Pingdom	Score 9.7 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.	$10 per month

Pricing

FortiMonitor

SolarWinds Pingdom

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Synthetic Monitoring: $10
per month
Real User Monitoring: $10
per month
Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitor	SolarWinds Pingdom
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Our simple, usage-based pricing model is ideal whether you have five servers, or 500 hundred. You’ll be charged monthly per the number of instances monitored, and any additional features you’re using, such as CounterMeasures and synthetic checks. Standard Instances - $6/Instance Network Devices - $9/Device Containers - $2/Container

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Community Pulse
	FortiMonitor	SolarWinds Pingdom
Considered Both Products	FortiMonitor Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Chose FortiMonitor Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Pingdom Eric Kimminau Sr. Principal Engineer Chose SolarWinds Pingdom At least during our investigation thus far, all of these companies have a more responsive support organization and are more actively maintaininbg and supporting their products. They are also all significantly more expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Phil Barker CTO Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Uptime.com Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom I have used Datadog's testing, and it is far more in-depth but more expensive. Pingdom was simple and easy to set up and very reliable, but Datadog had more advanced features but also cost a lot more and wasn't as simple to set up. Incentivized Helpful? Michiel Klønhammer (LearningStone) Founder Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Pingdom is the best for uptime as it's affordable and relatively simple but powerful enough. Other products offer other features. Incentivized Helpful? SB Snehansu Bhusan Engineering Manager Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Pricing and easiness to set up Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We have been with Pingdom since before it was SolarWinds Pingdom. It remains stable and solutions driven and has done so for many years. While it has many features we do not utilize, we are always looking to see which ones we can start to use when we have time. Some of the more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We have only used Pingdom for these needs, so I can't speak directly to competitors. That being said, for the reasons we used Pingdom it was fantastic value and the fact we never bothered to look for a competitor speaks volumes about our satisfaction with the product. Incentivized Helpful? CP Chirantan Pandya Director Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Pingdom supports more monitoring features than other applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We use a mixture of atlassian products and chose to use this at the beginning of 2020 when our org switched to full remote work posture. While it was nice having integration with opsgenie and our jira ticketing system it did not provide quite the mixture of flexibility and … Incentivized Helpful? Juan Orlando Cartagena Duran DevOps Engineer Chose SolarWinds Pingdom New Relic Incentivized Helpful? Luiz Eduardo Garcia System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Global points around the world. Availability reports. RUM and transactions. Incentivized Helpful? DW Daniel Wilkins Group Network Manager Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We did not evaluate other products, as we are already a SolarWinds customer, having used Orion for several years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom PRTG Network Monitor was a far more complicated tool to use and set up albeit it does both Internal and External monitoring. The setup wasn't intuitive and there are too many configuration options to complete to form an alert Amazon Cloudwatch is specific to AWS resources and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We did not evaluate other products as we felt that Pingdom's reputation was enough to encourage us to use the product Incentivized Helpful? Dan Harmon Senior System Analyst Chose SolarWinds Pingdom SolarWinds Dameware Remote Support (DRS), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We actually use both new relic and pingdom Incentivized Helpful? Raghav Gupta Associate Chose SolarWinds Pingdom It is very suitable for our organization as metrics that it provides like disk space, CPU usage and availability of application, etc. And the main thing is it has good integration with OpsGenie and Jira software so when our application is down or has any issue then we get a … Incentivized Helpful? Yaniv Vararu Director, Quality & Processes Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Some of the products mentioned here are much more "holistic solutions" for monitoring, analyzing, logging, alerting, etc., but for the use case, we use SolarWinds Pingdom. I think that SolorWinds Pingdom is much simpler and friendlier for configuring and maintaining. We … Incentivized Helpful? Fazal Azeem Implementation & Support Specialist Chose SolarWinds Pingdom we migrated from site 24x7 to pingdom because we have been facing issues with the monitoring and alerting. Our customers would reach out to us first rather than our monitoring tool notifying us that there is a problem. Its administration is also very complicated and compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We have looked into using New Relic Synthetics to achieve the same results we are achieving with Pingdom, ultimately Pingdom is significantly cheaper for essentially the same functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Jay Moore CIO Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We selected SolarWinds Pingdom based on the feature set we desired, which was simply a monitoring solution for our websites and other critical network services. The decision to use SolarWinds Pingdom was based on the simplicity of their mobile app and website. Incentivized Helpful? RP Ryan Park Software Engineer Chose SolarWinds Pingdom New Relic Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Pingdom is best at what it does: simple uptime checks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom We continue to use SolarWinds Pingdom because it hasn't failed us. If it did, we'd change to other providers, but we have no reason to do so. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Pingdom Newrelic has some simple uptime monitoring but it has very unclear pricing, which depends on how often you ping. And for our needs the next pricing bracket was way too much, maybe 10x. This could make sense if we were going to use the other monitoring capabilities of NewRelic … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
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User Ratings
	FortiMonitor	SolarWinds Pingdom
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	4.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	4.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FortiMonitor	SolarWinds Pingdom
Likelihood to Recommend	It is great for monitoring internet connections. The agent installed on Windows works efficiently and takes up little resources. The method of settling costs is not very clear. There should also be a table with the current list of costs visible. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Pingdom is well suited to monitor any of your public facing IPs, so you receive an alert by text message or email when the IP you are monitoring does not respond for a given length of time, from an impressive 10ms to 30s. This allows you to be pretty granular with the alerting. It's less appropriate for monitoring IPs on your LAN, unless you NAT these through your firewall. Incentivized DW Daniel Wilkins Group Network Manager Read full review
Pros	Monitoring from several locations Fast notification Push notifications, SMS and calling Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Alerting, particularly the integration with PagerDuty. Reporting: the ability to go back and view the history of each status check (including details about every failure) as well as graphs and reports over a longer time period. Weekly uptime report emails are very convenient. Programmatic configuration is possible with a third-party Terraform plugin. Incentivized RP Ryan Park Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Simplifying the interface Simplification of the process, e.g. notifications to Slack Dark mode for panel and dashboard Push notification - should contain more detailed information A nicer looking dashboard Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	sometimes sends false alerts there should be some threshold value for when an application is not reachable, it should alert after 30 seconds and keep sending hello packets for those 30 seconds and if still there is no response, then it should send the alert. too many unwanted metrics. Incentivized Fazal Azeem Implementation & Support Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Recently added features have made Pingdom less intuitive for our requirements. While Pingdom has a broad offering and remains a good value, it is becoming more than we need. Our customer base is becoming more and more global and Pingdom still lacks Asia-Pacific monitoring, which we will need within a year. Ted White Sr. Mgr., Information Systems Production Operations Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Pingdom is easy to use, very intuitive and has a very short learning curve. From the onset, we've been able to jump in and leverage the tool to accomplish our goals for page speed performance and discover the insights we need to make improvements. Its a well-designed tool and makes for a good user experience. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly. Ted White Sr. Mgr., Information Systems Production Operations Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Customer service from Solarwinds has always been stellar. We've never gone unnoticed, even though we're currently within their tail segment. They're a great partner to us and indeed an important one. When we've had to submit a ticket, we've always received a response within 24 hours. I'd highly recommend SolarWinds to any organization with a server network Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel). Easy work on installation. To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet. Multiple channels for sending notifications. Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	We have only used Pingdom for these needs, so I can't speak directly to competitors. That being said, for the reasons we used Pingdom it was fantastic value and the fact we never bothered to look for a competitor speaks volumes about our satisfaction with the product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Provides high availability of services Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Our client has continued to use our services It has helped our organisation keep up to date about any site traffic fluctuations and help us make educated decisions on appropriate server resources for the site The service is relatively inexpensive making it easy to cost into our maintenance charges Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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