Real network data. Without the enterprise sales cycle.
PingForce gives DevOps teams what enterprise monitoring vendors charge $30k+ for — multi-region probes, live ping and traceroute, BYOP server support — at prices that fit on a corporate card.
Where it hurts.
Catchpoint quotes start at $30k/year for the visibility you needed by lunch on Tuesday.
Enterprise tools assume you have a procurement team, a six-month rollout window, and budget approval theatre. You have a Stripe card and an incident in progress.
Your single-region monitor missed the East Coast outage because it lives in us-east-1.
When the region your monitor runs in is the region that fails, the monitor lies. Customers in Sydney are timing out. Your dashboard is green.
You need real network data to debug. You get a status page that says “investigating.”
By the time the curated incident prose goes up, you’ve been rolling restarts for forty minutes. Give us the packet loss numbers, the traceroutes, and the regional latency — not the public-facing wording.
Here’s how PingForce solves it.
Self-serve from $15/month. No procurement cycle.
Sign up with an email, pick a tier, run your first test in 90 seconds. Cancel from settings in one click. Same data the enterprise tools sell, without the gatekeeping.
If a probe isn’t where you need it, deploy your own there.
40+ probes across 7 cloud providers — AWS, GCP, Azure, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner — cover most of the world. When a customer is somewhere we’re not, drop the open-source agent on any Linux box and test from inside their network.
Live ping, traceroute, WHOIS, IRR, RPKI — the data you need when BGP is the suspect.
Raw latency, packet loss, hop-by-hop paths, ASN origin lookups, declared route objects, RPKI validation. Export as a shareable link, JSON, or CSV. Paste it into the incident channel before the next standup.
Features built for this work.
Global Testing
Multi-probe ping and traceroute from 40+ globally distributed probes. Pinpoint the exact region, network path, or hop causing the slowdown.
Bring Your Own Probe
Install the open-source agent on any Linux box. Test from inside your VPC, your customer’s network, or your own backbone. Keep it private or donate to the community.
Endpoint Monitoring
Watch any HTTP/HTTPS endpoint. Custom headers, Basic/Bearer auth, configurable up-status codes, JSON or form-encoded request bodies. SSL cert and domain expiry tracking built in.
Incident Monitoring
3-check confirmation rule kills false alerts. Webhooks fire to PagerDuty, Slack, OpsGenie, or anything that takes JSON.
Status Pages
Auto-updating public status pages tied directly to your monitors. Customers see what you see, before the support tickets land.
From teams like yours.
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.
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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