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New! Desktop notifier for website downtime

December 22nd, 2009 General

Do you have a website? Do you like knowing that it’s effective ok? Pingdom exists for this very reason, to alert you when your site has downtime, so you can fix it.

With this in mind we have released a new application that we call the Pingdom Desktop Notifier, which sits in your Windows system tray. Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service does the actual monitoring, so you have the benefit of our entire monitoring arrangement. The Desktop Notifier checks in with the Pingdom service at regular intervals and alerts you with a popup if your website goes down.

Pingdom Desktop Notifier

You don’t need to have an existing Pingdom account to get started. If you don’t have an account, the app will make a free one for you when you install it. It even sets up monitoring of your website for you automatically.

The Pingdom Desktop Notifier works as a completely stand-lonely application, but of course all the nifty features of the Pingdom uptime monitoring service are available at the click of a mouse button if you want to use them (it has a direct link to the Pingdom control panel).

Those of you who are by now using Pingdom can reckon of this as a complement to additional alerting methods such as email, SMS, Chirrup and iPhone push notifications.

The app works for Windows XP/Vista/7.

Get it here.