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75% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Pulseway and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It has been very helpful to get notifications about various issues with my servers and network to help me take action to resolve problems before they become major issues.""The setup is simple.""We like the patching of the window updates in the client's systems. You can automatically do updates with a single click.""It gives you remote control and has a mobile app.""The solution has great workflow and server modules."

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"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting.""One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.""Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time""There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."

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Cons
"It would be nice if it also had a desktop application, similar to the phone app, which would allow me to monitor and control computers from my desktop.""The solution does not allow you to make a script for just one customer.""GUI needs to be improved and the solution lacks a process for monitoring VOIP calls.""There are some bugs or glitches.""They have good technical support but it's not excellent."

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"I would like to see better integration with other products.""Some of the functions could improve by making them easier.""Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI.""Technical support could use some improvement."

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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It has been very helpful to get notifications about various issues with my servers and network to help me take action to resolve problems before they become major issues.
    Top Answer:I use the product to monitor some servers and desktop PCs on my internal network. Mainly, I use it to get notified of certain events, like a server being offline, or a certain service being stopped… more »
    Top Answer:It's a good solution for monitoring servers/computers/networks from your mobile device. However, the lack of a desktop monitoring/management app may be less than ideal for many situations.
    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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    908
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    2
    Average Words per Review
    553
    Rating
    7.5
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    Overview

    Pulseway is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform designed to help MSPs and IT teams manage modern IT networks, reduce downtime, and achieve efficiency through automation, while increasing end-user satisfaction.

    Pulseway’s intuitive interface provides real-time actionable detailed information on servers, workstations, and network devices. Using Pulseway’s customizable alerts, you can quickly identify problems, communicate with users, and automatically resolve issues with built-in commands and scripts.

    Some of Pulseway’s benefits and features include:

    • Comprehensive monitoring: Pulseway’s remote monitoring feature provides a complete view of your entire network. Gain visibility into operational data for workstations, servers, virtual machines, network devices, and more. If necessary, resolve issues directly from the same interface.
    • Remote access: Get a real-time view across your network, receive alerts, and remedy problems from anywhere with any mobile device using Pulseway’s full feature mobile app.
    • Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and design auto-remediation workflows, ensuring that critical patches are automatically applied.
    • Quick setup: Get your team up and running in minutes with Pulseway’s simplified deployment and auto-discovery engine. See all the IT endpoints and then rapidly mass deploy Pulseway with pre-configured built-in policies and out-of-the-box scripts.
    • Patch management: Pulseway automates the discovery and application of operating systems and third-party patches to ensure all your applications are kept up to date.
    • Reporting: Use custom or ready-made templates to create reports on system status and events. Reports can be sent manually or emailed automatically on schedule.
    • Backup and recovery: Protect your users’ data wherever it is stored and restore it to anywhere. Pulseway Cloud Backup’s intuitive interface enables you to easily schedule and deploy backups, recover data, and check up on backup status from both the Pulseway web application and the Pulseway mobile application. Quickly deploy backup agents.
    • Vulnerability scanning: Pulseway’s vulnerability scanner is easy to use and alerts for vulnerabilities in real time. With Pulseway’s vulnerability scanner, organizations can easily perform standard vulnerability scans that are regarded as international best practice.
    • Eliminate data loss: Prevent data loss and downtime from ransomware attacks with built-in detection and safeguards that allow for fast recovery after an attack.
    • Service ticket management: Pulseway’s complete help desk and ticketing solution allows you to respond quickly and professionally to user issues.
    • CRM: Get the information and resources you need to focus on your customers and increase opportunities.
    • Project management: Receive real-time project status with details on resource usage and tasks.
    • Finance and billing: Automatically create and post invoices imported from timesheets and expense reports.
    • Time tracking: Log precise information on time and expenses by company, project, tasks, and employees. Automatically record how much time is spent on a ticket for accurate billing.
    • Integrations: Integrate with leading solutions, including:
      • Pulseway PSA
      • ConnectWise Manage
      • Autotask
      • Zendesk
      • Slack
      • IT Glue
      • Kasepersky
      • Bitdefender
      • WarrantyMaster

    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. 

    Sample Customers
    Dell, Canon, Siemens, Harvard University, Northwestern University
    Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Real Estate/Law Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization54%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise28%
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    Pulseway is ranked 14th in Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) with 6 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Pulseway is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Pulseway writes "A solution with a great monitoring system and ability to control access remotely". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Pulseway is most compared with Zabbix, Kaseya VSA, Microsoft Configuration Manager, PRTG Network Monitor and Spiceworks, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic.

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