Website & HTTP monitoring
60-second HTTP/HTTPS checks. SSL expiry tracking. Keyword detection. Catch defacement, broken deploys, and slow responses before customers complain.
Learn more → ALL 40 PROBES OPERATIONAL
⏵ 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. Alerts in under 60 seconds.
40
Global Probes
7
Cloud Providers
<60s
Alert Latency
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 40 global probes. 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, custom timeout thresholds. Built for developers.
Learn more →⏵ Deployment
Three steps to mission-ready monitoring.
From signup to first alert 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
Choose your probes
Pick from 40 global probes across AWS, GCP, Azure, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, and Hetzner. Multi-provider by default.
3
Get alerted, fast
Outages confirmed by multiple probes trigger email, SMS, Slack, or webhook alerts within 60 seconds.
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.
Live probe network
40 probes · 7 cloud providers · 6 continents
Healthy Degraded Critical
Network path diversity
7 cloud providers means 7 different network backbones. AWS, Vultr, DO, Linode, GCP, Hetzner, Azure.
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.
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 |
| 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
$180/year
Specialist Free forever
Try the full PingForce platform — no credit card, no time limit, no kidding.
5 monitors
3 Flex slots
3 Donated slots
Lieutenant
$7 $76.44 / month / year 9% off
- 20 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 25 SMS notifications
- 1 status page
- 6 Flex slots
- 1 Private server slot
- 6 Donated slots
MOST POPULAR
Captain
$15 $153 / month / year 15% off
- 50 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 150 SMS notifications
- 2 status pages
- 1 child account
- 15 Flex · 3 Private · 10 Donated slots
Major
$33 $316.80 / month / year 20% off
- 100 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 200 SMS notifications
- 3 status pages
- 2 child accounts
- 25 Flex · 7 Private · 20 Donated slots
TOP BRASS
Colonel
$59 $531 / month / year 25% off
- 200 premium device monitors (1-min)
- 400 SMS notifications
- 10 status pages
- 5 child accounts
- 50 Flex · 20 Private slots (50-slot cap)
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.
Sample — Replace before launch
We caught a regional CDN issue at 3am that our old monitor missed for 6 hours. PingForce saw three probes flip critical from Asia while everything else stayed green. Saved us a refund cycle.
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Sample — Replace before launch
Got a quote from a big enterprise monitoring vendor — $40k a year, six-month rollout, and a sales motion that took weeks. Signed up for Captain in 90 seconds. Same insights, less bureaucracy.
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Sample — Replace before launch
The BYOP feature is huge for us — we test from inside our customer's network as well as the public internet. Nothing else on the market does both. The 3-check rule killed our false-alarm fatigue too.
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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.
Is the Specialist plan really free forever?
Yes. No credit card required, no trial countdown, no surprise charges. You get 5 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?
Daily summaries are retained for one year on all plans, so you always have your historical uptime, incident, and response-time trends. Hourly rollups are kept for shorter windows depending on your tier — Captain and above retain more granular data for longer.
Is PingForce secure? Where is data stored?
Data is stored on AWS (US West) with encryption at rest and in transit. We don't store your application data — only monitoring metadata (URLs, response times, status codes). Probe agents are open-source and only outbound; no inbound connections to your infrastructure.
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Your service is being watched.
The question is — by whom?
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