Comparison Pingdom vs Akamai mPulse

Pingdom is a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has been active since 2007. It was acquired by SolarWinds in 2014. It is known for its expertise in monitoring end-user experience. It provides the benefit of monitoring in real time. It is widely used by digital marketers, web hosting providers and web developers for its rich set of features. Pingdom is known for its affordable services and reliable metrics. Pingdom provides different types of monitoring such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring. It also provides informative log management and analytics info to help its users perform optimization.

Akamai mPulse is a Real User Monitoring (RUM) solution provided by Akamai. It runs on a private cloud and it provides a range of packaged services available for basic implementation along with the assistance of a professional services team. Akamai mPulse is also available as mPulse Lite. Akamai mPulse provides 24x7 user support with a fast response time. Its objective is to help its users make optimizations to their websites and increase their ROI. Along with the optimization of digital experience, it also provides analytics and actionable insights into user behaviour. It stores its real-time insights for 13 months. It also provides bot management, anomaly detection and third-party visibility.