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Pingdom vs Vigil: What are the differences?

Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of; Vigil: Simple website-monitoring and downtime notifications. Whether you have one site, or twenty, Vigil is a simple and reliable service for monitoring the uptime and performance of your websites. View all your sites on our beautiful client dashboards, get email and push notifications when there is a problem, and receive weekly email summary reports that let you know how your sites are doing over the long-term.

Pingdom and Vigil belong to "Website Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Pingdom are:

  • Uptime & Response time reports
  • Multi-step transaction monitoring
  • Email, text & twitter alerts

On the other hand, Vigil provides the following key features:

  • Simple
  • Reliable
  • Monitor Web Sites
Decisions about Pingdom and Vigil

We needed a monitoring tool to track application uptime, response time and provide a public status page.

After looking at several options including the big ones like Pingdom and Pingometer, we went with updown.io. Their pricing model allowed us to pay for exactly what we needed (number of endpoints and frequency) without selling us anything we weren't going to use.

Their interface is easy to use, service has been rock solid and their public status pages look great.

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Pros of Pingdom
Pros of Vigil
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    Simple and reliable
  • 103
    Monitoring your websites
  • 75
    Easy to use dashboard
  • 65
    Email, text & twitter alerts
  • 43
    Free tier
  • 23
    Performance data
  • 14
    Detailed Reports
  • 11
    Email Reports
  • 9
    Mobile App
  • 9
    Root Cause Analysis
  • 1
    30-day risk free trial
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    IOS app
  • 1
    Simple and reliable
  • 1
    Inexpensive

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Cons of Pingdom
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    UI is incredibly complicated
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    Expensive
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    Hard to set up alerts properly
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    What is Pingdom?

    Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.

    What is Vigil?

    Whether you have one site, or twenty, Vigil is a simple and reliable service for monitoring the uptime and performance of your websites. View all your sites on our beautiful client dashboards, get email and push notifications when there is a problem, and receive weekly email summary reports that let you know how your sites are doing over the long-term.

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