Alternatives to Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pingdom.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot offers 50 free monitors with status pages and a mobile app, but lacks Pingdom's real user monitoring and page speed monitoring.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime has a free plan and runs Playwright transaction checks along with SSL, DNS and cron monitoring, with a status page included.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
StatusCake covers uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server checks with status pages, and has a free tier available without a sales call.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
Checkly defines Playwright browser and API checks as code in version control, suiting developers more than non-technical users.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Oh Dear adds site-wide broken link crawling to uptime, SSL, DNS and cron checks, is EU-hosted and paid, without real user monitoring.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io is usage-priced uptime monitoring with 15-second intervals, certificate and cron checks, but no transaction checks or real user monitoring.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer monitors websites, APIs, ports and cron jobs with status pages and a free allowance of 50 monitors, without real user monitoring.
Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and status pages.
Uptime.com is also paid and business-oriented, adding API and cron monitoring, built-in status pages and mobile apps alongside real user monitoring.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Pingdom as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
DebugBear
A web performance testing and monitoring service with a free Core Web Vitals speed test.
Pingdom is a paid service combining page speed monitoring with uptime, transaction checks and real user monitoring, aimed at business websites.
GiftOfSpeed
A free website speed test and Lighthouse-based speed and uptime monitoring service.
Pingdom is a paid SolarWinds service combining uptime, page speed and transaction checks with real user monitoring, and has no free plan beyond the trial.
GTmetrix
An online page speed tester with waterfall charts, Core Web Vitals, scheduled monitoring and alerts.
Pingdom is a paid SolarWinds service adding uptime, transaction checks and real user monitoring to page speed monitoring, with no free plan beyond the trial.
Site24x7
A hosted monitoring service for websites, servers, networks and cloud platforms with alerts on downtime.
Pingdom offers uptime, transaction checks and real user monitoring for websites, with no free plan beyond the trial.
SpeedCurve
Hosted web performance monitoring service combining synthetic tests with real user monitoring.
Pingdom adds uptime and transaction checks alongside real user monitoring and page speed monitoring, as part of the SolarWinds product line with no free plan.
Treo
A web dashboard for tracking Core Web Vitals across sites using Chrome UX Report and Lighthouse data.
Pingdom is a paid SolarWinds service combining page speed monitoring with real user monitoring, uptime and transaction checks, with no free plan beyond the trial.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pingdom Tools
A free online website speed test that reports load time, page size and request count.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
