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Pingdom Will Kill Its Free Website Monitoring Plan on February 6 (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-an-era dept.

Pingdom, a popular website monitoring and performance management service, will soon stop welcoming non-paying users. In an email sent to users today, Pingdom announced that it will be ending its free tier on February 6. From a report: The move, which has unsurprisingly upset many users, comes five years after Pingdom was acquired by SolarWinds, an Austin, Texas-based firm. In its email, Pingdom said it intends to focus its resources and investment on the next phase of its product development. Founded in 2007, Pingdom attracted over 500,000 users from 200 countries in seven years, before it was acquired. Several major companies, including Google, Spotify, Microsoft, Twitter, Slack, Evernote, Mailchimp, Github, Square, Instagram, and others became its clients.

3 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. No surprise by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SolarWinds really crippled their free version of Kiwi Syslog Server recently too. Would not be at all surprised if it goes away as well.

  2. Left them long ago by dclxv · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We left Pingdom long ago in favor of Uptime Robot (https://uptimerobot.com/). Their free service is great and their paid service is perfect for our limited needs as a web hosting provider.

  3. Disappointed by Herkum01 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't understand the obsession with not offering a limited free product. I liked Pingdom, it has numerous quirks that I would not have over looked if they were asking for me to pay to use.