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Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

peter.kruty over 9 years ago

Many of you did notice recent exciting news, that we have a new family member - Pingdom joins SolarWinds!

Pingdom - a leader in cloud based web monitoring is great for measuring customer experience for customer-faced websites, provides end user experience from different geos and browsers, it's easy to start with abilities like RUM, transaction scripting and extensive mobile support. You may be asking about future of Website monitoring in Solarwinds and that is absolutely right question. WPM is a powerful synthetic monitoring solution, great for behind the firewall web application monitoring, with on premise or Amazon cloud options. However what do you think should be future of these two products? How would like to see these two be integrated if at all? What value you would like to get from this marriage?

Thinking about same and different use-cases for Pingdom and WPM: are you using WPM for monitoring internal or external sites (or both)? How many you have of each? What is in Pingdom, that would make your life easier? Are you using some other monitoring solution with WPM, which is actually a complement like Pingdom?

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0 Jfrazier over 9 years ago

Pingdom has possibilities...like WPM it fills a niche and helps you to measure service availability since in todays HA (Highly Available) world a single server or 2 being down may not be a critical thing with multiple servers sharing the load behind load balancers. WPM is a great point solution to run internal monitoring from remote branches to gauge application/service availability or even external sites. But from the other customer facing services via the internet, WPM is not really the tool to provide a good view from the perspective of the general consumer since they can be anywhere in the country. While Pingdom doesn't seem to have the granularity of WPM it does interleave in some areas where WPM is not as capable. Now with that said, WPM is rather long in tooth due to not having any real updates in like 18 months....support has been dismal. If WPM is updated and better supported, Pingdom can and should be a good extension to the tool as it gives you capabilities that are not as flexible with WPM due to the having to place hardware, etc...
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0 Jfrazier over 9 years ago

Pingdom has possibilities...like WPM it fills a niche and helps you to measure service availability since in todays HA (Highly Available) world a single server or 2 being down may not be a critical thing with multiple servers sharing the load behind load balancers. WPM is a great point solution to run internal monitoring from remote branches to gauge application/service availability or even external sites. But from the other customer facing services via the internet, WPM is not really the tool to provide a good view from the perspective of the general consumer since they can be anywhere in the country. While Pingdom doesn't seem to have the granularity of WPM it does interleave in some areas where WPM is not as capable. Now with that said, WPM is rather long in tooth due to not having any real updates in like 18 months....support has been dismal. If WPM is updated and better supported, Pingdom can and should be a good extension to the tool as it gives you capabilities that are not as flexible with WPM due to the having to place hardware, etc...
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0 peter.kruty over 9 years ago in reply to Jfrazier

Thanks for ideas Jon. Reading your post I understand that in general you see Pingdom and WPM cover different use-cases. WPM is great for internal web applications, maybe from different branches. Pingdom is strong is external public-faced applications. Do you see any touching points, where WPM and Pingdom can complement each other, where together they can provide new value?
What about ability to monitor your external sites from Amazon cloud? How do you see this comparing to Pingdom abilities?
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