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I 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)
The 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 trou…
Full disclosure: I work for PagerDuty.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 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 trou…
Instead 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.
Called it last week when SolarWinds started posting lots of Linux Admin jobs.
So 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
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.
I 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.
http://www.solarwinds.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/ye...
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/sugges...
I 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)
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.
I 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)
The 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 trou…
Their IOS app is quite good though. Every time I get an alert, I go directly to my Iphone