Synthetic Monitoring

Simulate visitor interaction with your site to monitor the end user experience.

View Product Info

FEATURES

Simulate visitor interaction

Identify bottlenecks and speed up your website.

Learn More

Real User Monitoring

Enhance your site performance with data from actual site visitors

View Product Info

FEATURES

Real user insights in real time

Know how your site or web app is performing with real user insights

Learn More

Infrastructure Monitoring Powered by SolarWinds AppOptics

Instant visibility into servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments

View Infrastructure Monitoring Info
Comprehensive set of turnkey infrastructure integrations

Including dozens of AWS and Azure services, container orchestrations like Docker and Kubernetes, and more 

Learn More

Application Performance Monitoring Powered by SolarWinds AppOptics

Comprehensive, full-stack visibility, and troubleshooting

View Application Performance Monitoring Info
Complete visibility into application issues

Pinpoint the root cause down to a poor-performing line of code

Learn More

Log Management and Analytics Powered by SolarWinds Loggly

Integrated, cost-effective, hosted, and scalable full-stack, multi-source log management

 View Log Management and Analytics Info
Collect, search, and analyze log data

Quickly jump into the relevant logs to accelerate troubleshooting

Learn More

New! Find DNS problems with Pingdom Tools

DNS test in Pingdom Tools

DNS, the Domain Name System, is a vital part of the Internet. And since it’s such a vital part of the Internet, it’s important that websites have correct DNS settings. If they don’t, it can lead to a number of problems, one of them being downtime. On top of that, bad DNS settings can be hard to track down and can cause a lot of head ache for webmasters and site owners.

We here at Pingdom run a website monitoring service that tracks the uptime of tens of thousands of websites for our users, so we deal with site issues on a daily basis. Over time, it has become exceedingly clear that a large portion of the various errors we detect are caused by bad DNS settings or poorly configured DNS servers.

This is why we now are introducing an addition to our free webmaster tools: a DNS health test.

Testing your website’s DNS settings for problems

This new test takes a domain name – that of your website, presumably, but you can test any domain name – and figures out which DNS servers it’s set up on, then makes sure that there are no strange settings that can cause problems.

It’s a very thorough test, so it should root out any issues that can cause you problems either now or down the line.

Good and bad DNS test results
Above: You want it to look like the left one, not the right one…

Those of you who like to know exactly what tests are being done can find the details under the “Advanced View” tab.

Share the results, get help

If you get warnings or errors from the test, make sure to bring this to the attention of the person or company that administrates your DNS servers and settings (if it’s not you).

For this purpose, we automatically create a permalink to your test that you can copy and paste into an email or other message. It shows up as soon as the test has finished. If you’re feeling social, you can also share the results directly to Twitter or Facebook.

Permalink to DNS test

In some cases, warnings in this test will be things you can live with, but it’s best to be sure. Ideally, your test should be all green and that is what you should strive for.

Final words

The DNS Health test is our latest addition to Pingdom Tools, which also includes Ping and Traceroute tools, and the popular Full Page Test that helps you track down bottlenecks with your website’s performance.

Pingdom Tools is a long-term project for us, and we want it to be a useful and free resource to you, the webmasters, sysadmins and site owners of the Internet. We hope you will find it useful.

We would also like to give a big shout out to the DNS gurus over at .SE, whose work this latest addition is based on.

And now, what are you waiting for? Go test your DNS settings!

SolarWinds Observability SaaS now offers synthetic transaction monitoring

Powerful transaction monitoring now complements the availability and real user [...]

Exit Rate vs Bounce Rate – Which One You Should Improve and Why

Tracking your website’s exit and bounce rates will give you insight into how [...]

Introduction to Observability

These days, systems and applications evolve at a rapid pace. This makes analyzi [...]

Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters

Last updated: February 29, 2024 Average size of a webpage matters because it [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Using CDNs

Last updated: February 28, 2024 Websites have become larger and more complex [...]

Monitor your website’s uptime and performance

With Pingdom's website monitoring you are always the first to know when your site is in trouble, and as a result you are making the Internet faster and more reliable. Nice, huh?

START YOUR FREE 30-DAY TRIAL

MONITOR YOUR WEB APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

Gain availability and performance insights with Pingdom – a comprehensive web application performance and digital experience monitoring tool.

START YOUR FREE 30-DAY TRIAL
Start monitoring for free