🆚 Azure Monitor vs. Pingdom

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Azure Monitor is three times more popular than Pingdom.
🌎 Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
🌍 Pingdom is more popular in Russia, Chile, and Slovakia.

Azure Monitor

Pingdom

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

Azure Monitor is a solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs.

Pingdom is a SaaS website uptime and performance monitoring solution that tracks the availability and user experience of websites and web applications.

It provides uptime checks from over 60 global polling locations, page speed analysis, synthetic transaction monitoring for actions such as logins or checkouts, real user monitoring that measures performance from visitors' browsers, and instant alerts via email or SMS.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

pingdom.com #88,024

Pricing

Free tier ✔️First 5 GB of analytics logs with 30-31 days of retention + platform metrics ingestion + 1M metric queries per month

Ingested logsAuxiliary$0.10/GB
Basic$0.50/GB
Analytics$2.30/GB

Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs$0.005 per GB of data scanned

Custom metrics ingestion$0.16/10M samples ingested

Platform and custom metric queries beyond the free 1M$0.01/1K API calls

Free version ❌

Synthetic Monitoring$15+/month

Real User Monitoring$15+/month

EnterpriseCustom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Monitor application monitoring tool is 3 times more popular than Pingdom.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, while Pingdom is more popular in Russia, Chile, and Slovakia.

United States

United Kingdom

Sweden

Netherlands

Australia

Norway

Germany

Canada

Denmark

Finland

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Chile in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Denmark in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Monitor is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and public information, while Pingdom is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Public Information

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Health

Government/Military

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO