Pingdom is joining SolarWinds
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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...
When I think Solarwinds, I think crufty enterprise shop that needs polished monitoring tools. When I think Pingdom, I think external monitoring for my startup app.
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...
Pingdom seemed to be the service that was one of the more prominent first to market options and then promptly sat on their laurels waiting for a buy-out. That seems to have come to fruition.
Based on the quality of product Solarwinds offers, I will now go delete any remaining monitoring I've been using from them.
I think the market could use a really good monitoring platform that does a lot more than what's on the service offering from the likes of Pingdom.
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I hope this deal sees them innovate beyond a UI refresh (Which is just about all thats changed in the last 10 years)
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".
It feels like a real mess now.
Full disclosure: I work for PagerDuty.
Thankfully it was basically morning, depending on the time zone.
Their IOS app is quite good though. Every time I get an alert, I go directly to my Iphone
Really sad. It was a great simple service that just worked. Straightforward to manage. Did one thing and did it well. Now it's a bunch of shiny screens that end up adding confusion and it's not even working.
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.
All of the employees that I know are cool people and very happy there and the pay, if I remember correctly, was pretty good.
BTW, the good admins are not coming out of the standard webhost support roles. Those people are cheap, but for good reason. The higher tiers at those shops, maybe.
However, sometimes I can't help but chuckle at the marketing and productization genius of someone who monetized the classic `ping`! Anyway, congratulations to the pingdom team on the acquisition and hope to see a more comprehensive API from them soon.