Pingdom Legacy API (V2.1)
Overview
Track Pingdom user-centric performance metrics in Datadog, for correlation with other relevant events and metrics.
Datadog tracks the response_time metric for any sites you configure on the Pingdom website.
Pingdom events can be added by configuring the relevant Integration Status Monitor
Metrics can only be imported for Pingdom customers at the Starter level or above.
Setup
Installation
- Open the Pingdom integration tile.
- Enter the username and password to your Pingdom account. (If you have a Team account, you can use your own credentials and specify the account you wish to pull checks from.)
- You can ignore some checks by unchecking them or add some tags to the events that are going to be generated.
Data Collected
Metrics
pingdom.response_time
(gauge) | The HTTP response time for this Pingdom check
Shown as millisecond |
pingdom.uptime
(gauge) | The elapsed time since the last HTTP error for this Pingdom check
Shown as second |
pingdom.check.status.count
(count) | Count of Pingdom status checks
Shown as check |
pingdom.check.error.count
(count) | Count of Pingdom status checks that only have errors
Shown as error |
pingdom.transaction.check.status.count
(count) | Count of Pingdom transaction status checks
Shown as check |
pingdom.transaction.check.error.count
(count) | Count of Pingdom transaction status checks that only have errors
Shown as error |
Events
The Pingdom integration does not include any events.
Service Checks
The Pingdom integration pulls in transaction checks and reports them as service checks.
For the pingdom.status check, the following table explains which Pingdom transaction check results correlate to which Datadog service check results.
| Datadog status | Pingdom status |
|---|
OK | up |
CRITICAL | down |
WARNING | unconfirmed_down |
UNKNOWN | unknown, paused |
Troubleshooting
Error when updating username or password
You may have seen the following error when saving your Pingdom credentials:
“There was an issue while testing your Pingdom configuration: Not permitted for account type”.
Add the email address of your Pingdom account owner in the (Optional) Account to query field, then save.
