Pingdom
SolarWinds' enterprise website monitoring and performance tracking service.
What is Pingdom?
Pingdom is an enterprise-grade website monitoring service owned by SolarWinds. It monitors website uptime, page speed, and transaction flows, alerting teams when performance degrades or outages occur.
The crawler makes periodic requests from global checkpoints to test availability and response times. It identifies itself with "Pingdom" in the user-agent string and operates from well-documented IP ranges.
Pingdom traffic is always intentional — it's configured by site owners or their operations teams. The monitoring data it collects is exclusively for the site owner's use, making it one of the most benign bot types.
User-Agent Strings
These are the known user-agent patterns used by Pingdom. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.
robots.txt example:
User-agent: Pingdom Disallow: /private/ Allow: /
How to Manage Pingdom
Never block — provides critical uptime monitoring.
Whitelist Pingdom IPs for cleaner bot analytics.
Very lightweight traffic pattern.
Use Switch to categorize monitoring traffic separately from other bots.
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