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  • "This price of this solution is reasonable."
  • "The license was paid yearly and included technical support."
  • "While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."
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    Top Answer:One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.
    Top Answer:Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping… more »
    Top Answer:SolarWinds Pingdom and Cloudflare are third-party applications that we utilize through a browser without any additional setup. We simply rely on their services, which is why I lack familiarity with… more »
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    In Network Management Applications
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    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    553
    Rating
    7.5
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    Overview
    Centralizes management of systems, networks and applications through one point of control. Expands enterprise management capabilities through proactive event monitoring and management.

    SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:

    1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more.

    2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings.

    3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions. 

    4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance. 

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    Alshaya, AtTask customer story video, BNY Mellon, Dell, Florida Hospital, Mitchell International
    Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
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    Educational Organization54%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company3%
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise28%
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    BMC Patrol [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Management Applications while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. BMC Patrol [EOL] is rated 5.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Patrol [EOL] writes "It was a monitoring tool with useful features such as database lining for intelligent alerts, but the coupling of it with BMC BPPM caused issues such as data loss". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". BMC Patrol [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, New Relic and Catchpoint.

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