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Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

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Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

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Post by MattBearman »

I thought it was odd that this statement seems to avoid using words like 'acquire', 'buy' or anything else the would mean Pingom has been purchased by SolarWinds. It wasn't until I clicked on the FAQ link that I was sure that an acquisition has just happened :s

Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

#4

Post by thehodge »

MattBearman wrote: post #3

I thought it was odd that this statement seems to avoid using words like 'acquire', 'buy' or anything else the would mean Pingom has been purchased by SolarWinds. It wasn't until I clicked on the FAQ link that I was sure that an acquisition has just happened :s

Agreed.. very confusing messaging..

Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

#5

Post by verelo »

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)

Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

#7

Post by ceejayoz »

verelo wrote: post #5

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 trouble ticket open with them that keeps getting auto-closed after 120 hours of "inactivity" because they said "yep, that looks like a bug, we'll let you know when fixed".

Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

#8

Post by meritt »

verelo wrote: post #5

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)

I doubt this acquisition was aimed at Pingdom's tech stack so much as their 26 employees and 500k+ users that SolarWinds can now upsell into more expansive monitoring solutions.

Re: Pingdom is joining SolarWinds

#9

Post by verelo »

ceejayoz wrote: post #7
verelo wrote: post #5

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…

I agree, i found the UI changes to be a real downgrade to what was a perfectly usable service. Just the other day i was trying to track down an error and it took me about 10 minutes to track down the right page.

It feels like a real mess now.

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