Pingdom vs Dynatrace

From $18 per month (10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check, 50 SMS; $16.50 annual)

From $58 per month per 8 GiB host (full-stack), or $0.01 per memory-GiB-hour

Priced by a calculator rather than named tiers: 50 uptime checks run about $78/month and 100 about $149, so the per-check rate falls slowly with volume. Transaction checks and Real User Monitoring are priced separately from basic uptime checks and add up.

Consumption-based pricing across hosts, synthetic requests, RUM sessions and log volume, billed on memory rather than CPU — a large host costs proportionally more. Enterprise contracts are large.

30-day trial.

15-day trial.

Widely used

SolarWinds · since 2007

Widely used

Dynatrace · since 2005

• Very large global probe network with a long operating history.
• Simple to set up for basic availability monitoring.
• Combines synthetic checks with real-user monitoring.

• Automatic discovery and dependency mapping removes most manual instrumentation work.
• Davis root-cause analysis genuinely reduces alert noise in complex estates.
• Covers mainframe and SAP alongside cloud-native workloads.

• Feature development has been slow under SolarWinds ownership.
• Transaction-check authoring is dated compared to code-first alternatives.
• Pricing is no longer competitive against newer entrants.

• Expensive, with consumption pricing that is hard to forecast.
• Heavy platform aimed at organisations with a dedicated operations function.
• Overkill for a straightforward web application.

Organisations wanting an established name for straightforward uptime monitoring.

Large enterprises with complex hybrid estates and a dedicated SRE or operations team.