Website & HTTP monitoring
Configurable check intervals from 1 to 30 minutes. SSL expiry tracking. Keyword detection. Catch defacement, broken deploys, and slow responses before customers complain.
Learn more → 40+ PROBES WORLDWIDE
⏵ Mission-grade uptime monitoring
Multi-probe monitoring. No blind spots.
40+ probes across 7 cloud providers. Multi-location verification catches what single-probe monitors miss. 1-minute checks on paid plans.
40+
Global Probes
7
Cloud Providers
99.97%
Network Uptime
Free · No signup LIVE
Test any URL from 40+ global probes — see what the world sees, instantly.
⏵ Arsenal
Monitor every layer of your stack.
From raw network packets to HTTP responses to SSL certificates. PingForce sees what other monitoring tools miss.
Multi-location ping monitoring
Burst ping logic from PingForce’s 2 US monitor locations. Detect packet loss, latency spikes, and intermittent failures that single-probe tools miss.
Learn more →API & port monitoring
Watch any TCP port or API endpoint. Header validation, response body checks, Basic/Bearer auth, configurable up-status codes. Built for developers.
Learn more →Toolbox
Four browser-only tools — IP subnet calculator, stopwatch & incident ops log, time zone converter, MAC address lookup. Free, no account, nothing sent to a server.
⏵ Deployment
Three steps to mission-ready monitoring.
From signup to first monitor in under 60 seconds. No agents to install. No DNS changes. No infrastructure required.
1
Add your target
Paste a URL, hostname, or IP. PingForce auto-detects whether to use HTTP, ping, or port checks.
2
Set your check
Pick the check type and interval. Checks run from PingForce’s monitor engines, and an outage is confirmed only after 3 failed checks in a row.
3
Get alerted, fast
A confirmed outage triggers email, SMS, Slack, or webhook alerts, and the probe network produces a Situation Report for the incident.
Ping Feature
Global network testing
One probe lies. Forty probes tell the truth.
PingForce Ping tests your service from 40+ globally distributed probes across 7 cloud providers — so you see what your customers actually experience, not just what one server in Virginia sees.
Single probe
“Looks fine to me.”
Your monitor in Virginia sees 50ms. Meanwhile, customers in Sydney are getting 800ms and timeouts. You hear about it from Twitter.
Forty probes
“Sydney is hurting.”
You see the exact regions degrading in real time. Pinpoint the bad route. Fix it before the support tickets start rolling in.
Probe network coverage
40+ probes · 7 cloud providers · 5 continents
Healthy Degraded Critical
Network path diversity
7 cloud providers means 7 different network backbones. AWS, Vultr, DO, Linode, GCP, Hetzner, OVH.
Bring your own probes
Add servers from your own infrastructure. Keep them private or donate to the community for slot credit.
Community network
Tap into probes donated by other users. Contribute back and unlock more concurrent probes on your plan.
Multi-Probe Confirmation
The evidence is captured at the moment of failure.
When your monitor catches a problem, our global probe network fires automatically on the third failed check — so when your engineer gets the alert, the forensic data is already attached.
Step 01
Your service
Starts returning errors.
Step 02
Monitor detects
3 consecutive failed checks.
Step 03
Global probes fire
40+ locations check at once.
Step 04
Evidence delivered
Situation report attached to the incident.
The verification runs the moment the issue is happening — not 5 minutes later when you’re trying to reproduce it. A situation report with the regions, routes, and response codes is attached to the incident in your dashboard before your engineer even opens the alert. The first question — “where is this happening?” — is already answered. Every Situation Report (SITREP) has a share link you can send to your team, a vendor or a customer.
How We Stack Up
Two products. Both built to win their category.
PingForce gives you the global probe network of an enterprise NOC tool and the reliable uptime monitoring of a dedicated SaaS — without the enterprise price tag.
Ping Feature
vs. global network testing tools
| Feature | PingForce | Catchpoint | ThousandEyes | RIPE Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global probe locations | 40+ | 2000+ | 200+ | 12000+ |
| Multi-cloud provider diversity | 7 providers | Proprietary | Proprietary | Volunteer |
| Bring your own probes | Yes | No | Limited | Yes |
| Built for SMBs (no enterprise sales) | Yes | No | No | Research |
| Self-serve pricing | From free | Call sales | Call sales | Credits |
Monitor Feature
vs. uptime monitoring tools
| Feature | PingForce | Pingdom | UptimeRobot | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP / keyword / port checks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 3-check confirmation (no false alerts) | Built-in | 2-check | Manual | Configurable |
| Public status pages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paired with global probe network | Yes | No | No | No |
| Multi-probe verification on failure | Automatic, 40+ probes | No | No | No |
| Entry plan price | Free tier | $15/mo | Free | $25/mo |
Comparison reflects publicly available info as of May 2026. Competitor offerings change frequently — see vendor sites for current details.
Choose Your Rank
Detect and troubleshoot. One subscription.
Tired of being held hostage by mega tech vendors with five-figure quotes and three-hour sales calls? PingForce gives you the network visibility of an enterprise NOC — at prices that fit on a corporate card.
No Procurement Theater
Built for teams that ship — not for teams that schedule sales demos.
Sign up in 60 seconds. Cancel anytime. No “contact us” pricing.
Enterprise tools
$30k–$100k+
per year
PingForce
$15/mo
$144/year paid upfront
Save up to 25% with annual billing
Specialist Free forever
Try the full PingForce platform — no credit card, no time limit, no kidding.
10 monitors
1 PingForce-hosted status page
3 Flex slots
3 Donated slots
Lieutenant
$7 / month
$6 /mo
billed annually at $72
- 20 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 25 SMS notifications
- 3 PingForce-hosted status pages
- 0 custom-domain status pages
- 6 Flex slots
- 1 Private server slot
- 6 Donated slots
MOST POPULAR
Captain
$15 / month
$12 /mo
billed annually at $144
- 50 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 150 SMS notifications
- 5 PingForce-hosted status pages
- 1 custom-domain status page
- 1 team member
- 15 Flex · 3 Private · 10 Donated slots
Major
$29 / month
$24 /mo
billed annually at $288
- 100 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 200 SMS notifications
- 10 PingForce-hosted status pages
- 2 custom-domain status pages
- 2 team members
- 25 Flex · 7 Private · 20 Donated slots
TOP BRASS
Colonel
$59 / month
$44 /mo
billed annually at $528
- 200 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 400 SMS notifications
- 25 PingForce-hosted status pages
- 3 custom-domain status pages
- 5 team members
- 50 Flex · 50 Private · 50 Donated slots
Monitor Feature · Detect
“Something is wrong.”
Reliable uptime checks with 3-check confirmation. Alerts you only when it’s real.
Ping Feature · Troubleshoot
“Here’s where and why.”
40+ global probes pinpoint the exact region, route, or network causing the problem.
No signup required
Free public ping test — try it from 40+ locations right now
Earn extra probe slots
Donate a probe to the community and unlock additional Donated Slots — your contribution multiplies everyone’s coverage.
Field Reports
Trusted by teams that can’t afford blind spots.
From SaaS founders watching their first customers, to ops teams keeping multi-region apps online, PingForce shows up when it matters.
We were struggling with intermittent issues connecting to one of our critical servers. PingForce's Multi-Probe Confirmation gave us clear evidence to zero in on the troubled ISP as the root cause. It turned what could have been days of troubleshooting into a quick and definitive diagnosis.
Brian Musgrave
Network Engineer · PhoenixNAP
We heavily rely on our VPN for remote working since 90% of our company works remotely. We love PingForce because it instantly lets us know if there's an issue. Keeping our staff connected is vital to our company's success. Thank you for an affordable, reliable solution that just works.
Tony Moretti
IT Manager · Apex Virtual Solutions
We used to find out checkout was down from angry customer emails. Now we know within the minute and fix it before support even sees a ticket.
Maya Okafor
Head of DevOps · Northwind Commerce
Intel Briefing
Questions, answered straight.
No marketing fluff. Real answers to the questions people actually ask before signing up.
What's the difference between the Ping Feature and the Monitor Feature?
Monitor is for detection — reliable HTTP uptime checks with 3-check confirmation. It tells you “something is wrong” without false alarms.
Ping is for troubleshooting — 40+ globally distributed probes across 7 cloud providers tell you “here's where and why.”
You get both features in every plan, and they're automatically chained: the moment Monitor confirms 3 failed checks, our Ping network fires across 40+ probes and attaches a situation report (regions affected, routes, response codes) to the incident in your dashboard. Your engineer opens the alert and the forensic evidence is already there.
Is the Specialist plan really free forever?
Yes. No credit card required, no trial countdown, no surprise charges. You get 10 monitors (5-min intervals), 3 Flex slots, and 3 Donated slots. It's a real plan for real use — not a teaser. Many of our customers stay on Specialist forever, and that's fine with us.
Can I really add my own server as a probe?
Yes. Install the PingForce agent on any Linux server you control. You decide whether to keep it private (only your account uses it) or donate it to the community (everyone benefits, you earn extra Donated Slots).
Most monitoring services lock you into their probe locations. We figured your network is yours.
How fast are your alerts?
Under 60 seconds from failure detection to alert delivery on paid plans (1-minute check intervals). The 3-check confirmation rule adds a brief verification window — we'd rather alert you in 60 seconds about something real than 30 seconds about a flapping connection.
What happens if I cancel?
You drop back to the free Specialist plan — your data stays intact, your monitors keep running (just at 5-min intervals), and you can upgrade again anytime. No contracts, no cancellation fees, no “talk to retention.” One click, done.
How long is my monitoring data kept?
Two different things, two different clocks. Incident history — the detailed record of each outage — is retained by tier: 7 days on Specialist, 30 days on Lieutenant, 90 days on Captain, 180 days on Major, and up to 365 days on Colonel. Uptime graph data — your historical availability and response-time trends — is kept for one year on every plan, including free.
Is PingForce secure? Where is data stored?
Data is stored on AWS (US West), encrypted in transit; the monitor credentials and custom request headers you store are also encrypted at rest. We don't store your application data — only monitoring metadata (URLs, response times, status codes). Probes are installed with one command you run yourself, or by an assisted install that uses your SSH login once and never stores it; after install, PingForce connects to the probe on port 80.
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