Pingoose vs Pingdom

For Pingoose to be competitive in the network analytics and monitoring market, we need to be an order of magnitude cheaper than incumbents like Pingdom and Thousand Eyes.

Pingdom

For $1000 a month on Pingdom, you can get

• Uptime test for 1500 URLs

• 120 advanced test (this is page speed and transaction tests)

• 500 SMS alerts

An uptime check input form looks as follows:

An advanced check takes place every 30 mins and you can only pick one location from which to make the checks. The form to set up a speed check looks like this:

For Saturn’s use case on Pingdom, each CID check would constitute a different URL and TTFB falls under the advanced test category. This means for $1000 a month, you would be able to test 120 fixed CID urls from one location, which isn’t sufficient for the use case.

Station

For $1000 a month on Station, you can get

• Test from all geolocations, i.e. measurements from all active Station nodes

• All relevant CID checks

• Integration with existing Saturn benchmarking DB

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