Pingrid: Automate Uptime Checks and Receive Alerts
Discover Pingrid, a freemium tool for monitoring website uptime with automated checks from global locations, sending alerts via email, SMS, Slack, or webhook.
What is Pingrid?
Pingrid is a website and server monitoring tool designed to keep track of website uptime, availability and performance. It works by periodically sending requests from data centers around the world to configured websites and API endpoints to check if they are reachable and responsive.
Some key features of Pingrid include:
- Uptime monitoring - Pingrid checks configured sites from global monitoring locations every minute to detect outages fast.
- Status pages - Public status pages are generated for monitoring setups to inform visitors when issues occur.
- Page speed tests - Automatic page load performance tests help find optimization opportunities.
- Email, SMS, Slack alerts - Get notified your way when there are incidents or outages.
- Historical uptime reports - Pingrid stores availability data historically so you can see trends.
- API monitoring - Monitor REST and SOAP APIs by configured requests and expected responses.
- Real browser testing - Optional true browser testing from worldwide locations.
- Freemium and paid plans - Basic monitoring is free for upto 5 checks. More advanced features on higher plans.
In summary, Pingrid provides an easy way to monitor website, web app and API availability through periodic automated checks and alerts configurable to user needs.