Blog Entry of 2011-May- 2 in PRTG 8
PRTG Now Supporting Pingdom Integration
In the last blog entry we introduced the new Maps Designer which makes creating maps even easier with drag & drop support. However, there is more news about the current version.
On top of your own PRTG monitoring installation it is always a good idea to monitor your website, mail server, etc., from other locations. You can do that with PRTG's own "remote probes" installed on geographically distributed servers—for this option we are seeing excellent results with cloud servers from Amazon EC2, RackspaceCloud, etc. But each of these servers costs between $50 and $100 per month. If you only have a few URLs and servers to check you can now opt for another solution:
With PRTG version 8.4, we present a new sensor type which can integrate Pingdom "checks" into your central network monitoring.
Pingdom is a popular website and server monitoring service. It can monitor a public website or server from different locations around the globe—just as PRTG can using remote probes or cluster installations. You can get a free account (includes 1 URL) or paid-for accounts starting at $9.95.
Using an external monitoring service can be a useful endorsement for your own monitoring data. If you're using one or more Pingdom "checks," you can now make sure they are up and running, as well as integrate the measured Ping time values directly into PRTG.
This way, the externally collected data is available in your central PRTG interface together with the monitoring data of other parts of your network. You can use the sensor data in alarm lists, notifications, reports, and all functionalities of PRTG's historic data reporting are available, so you can further analyze the response times and choose from different averages, etc. You can even build graphs comparing the Pingdom all-over-the-world measurements with the ones conducted from your local machine.
Simply log in to your PRTG web interface, add a new Pingdom sensor, enter your Pingdom credentials and make sure the scanning interval matches the one set for your Pingdom "check." With every scanning interval, PRTG will request your Pingdom account and get the last scanning result, building its own chronicle of the reported measurements.
Try it out yourself! Download PRTG 8.4 now!