The Pingdom Desktop Notifier monitors website uptime in the background, utilizing Pingdom's free uptime monitoring service. It provides alerts if a website goes down and a user can easily start monitoring from within the application.
The application uses the Pingdom uptime monitoring service which is completely free, allowing users to easily get started monitoring their website uptime right inside the application. This service boasts a global network of servers, designed to test a website's uptime and response time, ensuring that it works optimally at all times.
At its core, the Pingdom Desktop Notifier can monitor one website for free, though paid options are available for those looking to monitor more. Since this application uses Pingdom's popular monitoring service, however, there are numerous features one can access online, including full access to all functionalities via an online control panel.
Other features include downtime alerts via email, SMS, Twitter, and iPhone push notifications, charts and statistics for uptime, downtime, and response time, error analysis performed automatically to help identify problems, daily/weekly/monthly status reports via email, and publicly hosted uptime reports, if desired.
All in all, the Pingdom Desktop Notifier is an excellent software tool for those looking to monitor their website's uptime. With its numerous features, it's an excellent way to keep abreast of a website's functionality and alert owners of any issues that may arise.
Version 1.0: - Initial version