Status pages and uptime monitoring
Pingdom privacy rating
Hosted website uptime, page speed and transaction monitoring from SolarWinds, with real user monitoring and public status pages.
Summary
Pingdom scores 13 out of 100 (grade F) on the status pages and uptime monitoring criteria. It meets 1 of 7 criteria: public uptime history. It partly meets independent audit. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, runs on your own infrastructure and no visitor tracking. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act.
Score 13 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The home page loads Optimizely and the X (Twitter) pixel.
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No
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
The SolarWinds privacy policy says personal data, including purchased data, is used for tailored advertising on third-party websites.
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Partial
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
SolarWinds shares SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports only on request.
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No
Runs on your own infrastructure Weight 3 of 3
Can it run entirely on your own infrastructure or repository, without a vendor account?
Hosted by the vendor only.
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No
No visitor tracking Weight 2 of 3
Is the public status page free of third-party trackers and analytics?
Pingdom's own public status page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
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Yes
Public uptime history Weight 1 of 3
Does it publish response times and incident history?
Public status pages share uptime check reports, with a page per check.