SolarWinds will introduce Pingdom service as its newest add-on to Heroku Elements Marketplace at Dreamforce in San Francisco September 15-18. Pingdom provides powerful web performance monitoring and joins current top Heroku add-ons of the Librato and Papertrail services to complete the SolarWinds full-stack Heroku monitoring solution.
SolarWinds is one of six companies that will partner with Salesforce’s cloud application platform, Heroku, within the Developer Zone. There, SolarWinds will showcase Pingdom, Librato and Papertrail, its cloud monitoring solutions now available in Heroku’s Elements Marketplace of verified tools that provide extra services to support the platform as a service (PaaS) offering.
“SolarWinds already features two of the most popular solutions for Heroku developers with Librato and Papertrail, and now Pingdom brings web performance monitoring to complete the picture,” said Peter Cho, Head of Heroku's Ecosystem Program. “As more developers build their applications on Heroku, they can benefit from the full-stack monitoring capabilities that SolarWinds offers and that many Heroku customers already use and love."
Get full Heroku visibility with SolarWinds add-ons
Pingdom – Web performance monitoring
- Tests and verifies a website’s uptime and availability every minute with over 60 global polling locations
- Provides valuable insights from actual visitors’ experiences with real user monitoring
- Monitors synthetic transactions to help ensure important interactions like signup, search, or downloadable files on a website aren’t slow or broken
Librato – Real-time cloud monitoring
- Collects metrics directly from Heroku, Amazon Web Services®, server monitoring, API, application code, configuration management tools, and other services
- Aggregates, correlates, time-shifts and otherwise transforms data with customizable visualizations of metrics, events, annotations, charts and dashboards
- Allows users to customize notifications using complex alert criteria and thresholds, and sends alerts via email, UI, webhooks or many other integrated alerting tools
Papertrail – Log management
- Provides log visibility across all a user’s systems
- Troubleshoots with full-text search, metadata and sub-strings, letting users tail, interpret and act on real-time log streams
- Analyzes issues with saved searches, events and alerts from related systems and data streams
“While application development and deployment can be a complex and time-consuming process for many, Heroku offers developers a dependable and customizable environment on which to build and keep an eye on their stacks. With Heroku’s add-on marketplace, they also offer users flexibility to monitor their unique environments with their choice of fantastic tools,” said Joel Dolisy, CTO, SolarWinds. “With Pingdom, Librato and Papertrail technologies now all available for Heroku users, SolarWinds provides developers and operations professionals the full-stack visibility they need into their Heroku environments.”
Customers of SolarWinds’ cloud solutions include Heroku, Airbnb, Instacart, Codeship, Slack and Nextdoor, among many others.
Pingdom’s free beta plan is now available in the Heroku marketplace with additional comprehensive plans coming in October. Librato and Papertrail are currently available in the Heroku marketplace with multiple pricing plans, including free starter options.
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