SolarWinds Observability SaaS now offers synthetic transaction monitoring

We are excited to announce that Pingdom’s Heroku Add-on is now generally available to all Heroku users in the Elements Add-on Marketplace.  The add-on has everything Heroku users need for website or web app monitoring, including: Uptime monitoring: Check that your website or web app is available every minute automatically – over 70 global polling locations in […]

Before you begin reading further: Are you offering products, services, or solutions online? Does your business depend on user activity on your website? If the answer is yes, you should be reading this post, and sharing it with your IT team, too. For companies that depend on online transactions on their website—could be a retail […]

Website unavailability, connections issues, and slow response time can be attributed to incorrect DNS configuration. You can exactly pinpoint it’s a DNS configuration issue when you’re unable to access a website using it’s DNS name, for example, www.wsj.com On the other hand, if you know this site’s IP address, accessing it may be faster because […]

Pingdom Adds Probe Servers In The Asia Pacific Region Earlier this year, we added our most frequently requested feature – the ability to monitor websites using only North American probe servers or only European probe servers.  Now, we are excited to cross another highly requested feature off our to-do list – Add probe servers in […]

Instead of your website loading as expected, you only see a 404 Not Found Error. Or, you’re unable to view images and live content on the site is taking way too much time to render. Sound familiar? A website, just like any application we use every day is bound to go through some amount of […]

When it comes to load times, seconds count. As do milliseconds. You and your competitors both know it. A 100ms latency may sound fast—until you multiply it by the 80 items on your landing page, resulting in an eight-second load time. Considering that one in three users will abandon your site if it hasn’t loaded […]

You run a big thriving site and one day you’re told it needs to be migrated/decommissioned – oh and do not lose a single conversion. HA! Not going to happen! There’s going to just have to be acceptable losses. Right? Heh, now let me tell you how we did it. Any major site migration/decommission has […]

If a customer ever gets around to reading your SLA, one key question comes up sooner or later: Have you provided what you promised? You could simply say yes—but that doesn’t give them reason to trust you. A status page does. It conveys accurate, up-to-date information that proves you’ve not only met, but exceeded the […]

Yesterday marked five years since the inaugural Instagram photo was posted, and go figure, it was a dog. Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger went on to launch Instagram the following October and it’s all history from there. Since then, the photo sharing service has joined the ranks of popular social media giants such as […]

Continuous Liquid Interface Production is a breakthrough technology that grows parts instead of printing them layer by layer. This allows businesses to produce commercial quality parts at game-changing speeds.

With consumers expecting web sites to load faster and faster while web applications get more complex, it is getting harder to be knowledgeable about every component of your web application. Web performance requires knowledge on subjects like application troubleshooting, firewalls and security, network troubleshooting, database performance, and on concepts like DevOps and cloud. Those are […]

Why maintain multiple tools that function independently with overlapping data and redundant information? You can eliminate the unnecessary duplication of production data by relying on the Copy Data Management (CDM) approach.

Today many of our friends are probably getting an extra shot of coffee after last night’s outage. Our live map lit up with over 100,000 outages around the world. AWS had a routing problem that caused many sites to go down. The incident lasted around 40 minutes and affected Slack, Netflix, Pinterest and many others. […]

Industrial equipment can be offered on a pay-per-use basis similar to the software as a service model in IT. The emerging concept known as product as a service transforms service from a standalone function within a manufacturer to an integrated product and service offering that delivers value as the product is in use.

A mobile presence is key to your business success. It is also one of the hardest things to get right. With more than half of all Web traffic coming from mobile devices, and Google favoring mobile-friendly sites in search results, it’s worth thinking carefully about how to present your company. Beyond just showing up on […]

HTTP/2 is the future and it’s already here. The focus of HTTP/2 is on performance, specifically end-user perceived latency, network and server resource usage. The standard has just been finalized and major browsers are beginning to support it.

Half of YouTube’s views are already on mobile devices, with mobile watch time growing nearly 100% in the past year, compared to growth in overall YouTube watch time of 50% in that period. “For us, most of our focus is on mobile: product development for mobile, content development for mobile, making sure mobile video works on carrier networks all around the world. It’s all mobile, mobile, mobile,” says Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s Head of content and business operations.

ARGUS is a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as 6 inches/15 cm from an altitude of 20,000 feet/6 km. The image is detailed enough to be able to see you waving your arms and what kind of clothes you wear.

Using Pingdom’s custom checks, you can look for content changes on any website. Get the ability to call your own scripts on the server and set your own status report. This allows more comprehensive checks that go beyond a simple ping.

Cowboy coding is when you make live changes to a website everyone can see. If you do anything that might break your site – you’re cowboy coding.